Lempriere's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors Writ Large: With a Chronological Table
by John Lemprière, John Lempriere
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KayCliff Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk concerns the writing of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors Writ Large by John Lempriere.
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Don't actually want this edition but the original. Might be a long time wishing and searching.
Classical Dictionary.
Not to be confused with the 1991 novel that is, unfortunately, the first Google hit for "Lempriere's Dictionary."
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- Canonical title
- Lempriere's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors Writ Large: With a Chronological Table
- Original publication date
- 1788; 1984-01 (3rd Routledge Ed.) (3rd Routledge Ed.)
- First words
- AARASSUS, a city of Pisidia.
- Quotations
- Then came the rebellion of the giants. After their defeat Jupiter, "now freed from every apprehension, gave himself up to the pursuit of pleasure. He married Metis, Themis, Eurynome, Ceres, Mnemosyne, Latona, and Juno (vid. J... (show all)uno)".
Zygia, a surname of Juno, because she presided over marriage. She is the same as the Pronuba of the Latins.
By her marriage to Jupiter, Juno became the queen of all the gods, and mistress of heaven and earth. Her conjugal happiness, however, was frequently disturbed by the numerous amours of her husband, and she showed herself jeal... (show all)ous and inexorable in the highest degree. Her severity to the mistresses and illegitimate children of Jupiter was unparalelled.
Danae was confined in a brazen tower by her father, who had been infromed by an oracle that his daughter's son would put him to death. His endeavours to prevent Danae from becoming a mother proved, however, fruitless; and Jup... (show all)iter, who was enamoured of her, introduced himself to her bed by changing himself into a golden shower.
Docimus, a man of Tarentum, deprived of his military dignity by Philip, son of Amyntus, for indulging himself with hot baths. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)ZYRAS, a river of Thrace which flows by Dionysiopolis.
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- Reference, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 938.003 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Greek Stone & Bronze Age, Greek tribes (Ancient) Ionians
- LCC
- DE5 .L564 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Greco-Roman World History of the Greco-Roman world General
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