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Excerpt from An Alphabetical Encyclopedia of Institutions, Persons, Events, of Ancient History and Geography Readers of the Greek and Roman classics, who have little or no acquaintance with ancient history, are frequently confronted by references to persons and events with which they are unfamiliar. It is to meet the need of such readers that this volume is designed, with a view to supplying, in a handy form, a brief account of the more important personages, events, and places of classical antiquity. The omission, however, of some very famous names, especially in the world of letters and art, requires a little explanation. As a companion volume to this, it is proposed to issue an abridged edition of Seyffert's "Dictionary of Classical Antiquities," and in this second volume will be found, along with accounts of the institutions, etc., of the Greeks and Romans, biographies in brief of many important people whom it has been found necessary to exclude from the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.