Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, Literature, and Art

by Oskar Seyffert, Henry Nettleship (Editor), John Edwin Sandys (Creator)

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the classical world, including biographies and essays on everything from the ancient gods and legendary heroes to the social institutions and customs upon which our own civilization is based. B&W illus.

Genres: Reference, Mythology, Religion, Nonfiction

714 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1882

About the author

Oskar Seyffert was a German classical philologist. He specialized in studies of the Roman playwright Plautus.

He studied philology at the University of Berlin, where his instructors included August Boeckh, Moriz Haupt, Theodor Mommsen, Karl Müllenhoff and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. In 1864 he obtained his PhD, then briefly served as an apprentice at the gymnasium in Frankfurt an der Oder and at the Grauen Kloster in Berlin. In 1865 he began work as a schoolteacher at the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he later attained the titles of senior instructor (1872) and professor (1885).