Samuel Ball Platner
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Samuel Ball Platner (December 4, 1863 – August 20, 1921) was an American classicist and archaeologist.[1]
Platner was born at Unionville, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College. He taught at Western Reserve University[2] and is best known as the author of various topographical works on ancient Rome,[3] chief among them A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, completed after Platner's death by Thomas Ashby and published in 1929;[4] and as a contributor to the 1911 Britannica.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- The topography and monuments of ancient Rome (1st ed. 1904; 2nd rev ed. 1911; Boston, Allyn & Bacon).[3]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Samuel Ball Platner at the Database of Classical Scholars
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