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Charles Athnon (1797–1867)

Author of A classical dictionary: Containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors and intended to

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Includes the names: LLD Charles Anthon, Charles Anthon (ed.), LL.D. Charles Anthon

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Works by Charles Athnon

A classical dictionary: Containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors and intended to (1844) 11 copies, 1 review

A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges (2008) 5 copies

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, and the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase (1847) 4 copies

The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, A Metrical Index, and Homeric Glossary (1888) 4 copies

The Anabasis of Xenophon (2015) 4 copies, 1 review

A Greek reader, selected principally from the work of Frederic Jacobs ... with English notes, critical and explanatory, a metrical index to Homer and Anacreon, and a copious… 3 copies

Works of Horace The New Edition 3 copies

The Satires of Juvenal and Persius: From the Texts of Ruperti and Orellius: With English Notes, Partly Comp., and Partly Original (Latin Edition) (2010) 3 copies

A Grammar of the Latin Language (2015) 3 copies

A manual of Grecian antiquities. With numerous illustrations 2 copies

Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Cataline with An English Commentary and Geographical and Historical Indexes (2010) 2 copies

A System Of Greek Prosody And Metre, For The Use Of Schools And Colleges; Together With The Choral Scanning Of The Prometheus Vinctus Of Aeschylus, And The Ajax And Oedipus… (2011) 2 copies

A Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary, for the use of schools 2 copies

Manual of Greek literature from the earliest authentic periods to the close of the Byzantine era / by Charles Anthon. (2006) 2 copies

An introduction to Greek prose composition : with copious explanatory exercises in which all the important principles of Greek syntax are fully elucidated 1 copy

The De senectute, De amicitia, Paradoxa, and Somnium Scipionis of Cicero, and The life of Atticus, by Cornelius Nepos, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory — Editor — 1 copy

The Æneïd of Virgil: With English Notes (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 copy

A system of Latin versification : in a series of progressive exercises, including specimens of translation from English and German poetry into Latin verse : for the use of schools… 1 copy

A system of Latin versification, in a series of progressive exercises, including specimens of translation from English and German poetry into Latin verse 1 copy

A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography (2016) 1 copy

Aeneid of Virgil with English notes critical and explanatory (1858) 1 copy, 1 review

Exercises on the Syntax of the Greek Language (2018) 1 copy

Sallust's Jugurthine War (2015) 1 copy

First Latin lessons: Containing the most important parts of the grammar of the Latin language, together with appropriate exercises in the translating and writing of Latin, for the… (1857) 1 copy

An introduction to Latin prose composition, with a complete course of exercises, illustrative of all the important principles of Latin syntax 1 copy

An English commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, and Troades of Euripides: with the scanning of each play, from the latest and best… (1877) 1 copy

Select Orations of Cicero 1 copy

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The Aeneid (translations) (0029) — Notes, some editions — 26,554 copies, 226 reviews

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Canonical name: Athnon, Charles
Birthdate: 1797-11-19
Date of death: 1867-07-29
Gender: male
Education: Columbia College (1815)
Occupations: Classical scholar
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): New York, USA

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SteveJohnson 217 reviews

A classical dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors, and intended to elucidate all the important points connected with the geography, history, biography, mythology, and fine arts of the Greeks and Romans. Together with an acount of coins, weights, and measures, with tabular values of the same by Charles Athnon

Huge dictionary of classical Greece and Rome, with lengthy entries.

cassius2 22 reviews

Aeneid of Virgil with English notes critical and explanatory by Charles Athnon

Leather good condition, title page missing

JosephMay 2 reviews

The Anabasis of Xenophon by Charles Athnon

Text of Xenophon's Anabasis in Greek, annotations in English.

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