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Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. The articles frequently note variant traditions, disagreements
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The biographical articles in this work include the names of all persons of any importance which occur in the Greek and Roman writers, from the earliest times down to the extinction of the
Western Empire in the year 476 of our era, and to the extinction of the Eastern Empire by the capture of
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among the authorities, and the interpretations of modern scholars. However, due to the variable numbering systems used in different editions of classical works, and the difficulty of recognizing typographical errors in citations, the original sources should still be checked. Many of the
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A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography: partly based upon the
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