Samuel Ball Platner

Samuel Ball Platner ( born December 4, 1863 in Unionville, Connecticut; † August 20, 1921 ) was an American classical scholar and classical archaeologist.

The son of a factory studied from 1879 at Yale College, where he obtained his first degree in 1883 and Ph.D. in 1885 received his doctorate. Since that year he taught Latin and French at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890 as an Assistant Professor, from 1892 as a professor. 1889/1890 he spent one year studies in Berlin and Rome. In 1897 he spent a second year in Rome, 1899/1900, a third as a professor of Latin at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. 1900-1901 he was president of the American Philological Association.

Platner worked mainly on topographical subjects of ancient Rome. In addition to numerous essays as the results of his research together in his most important work, which after his death by Thomas Ashby to end -run and 1929 issued Encyclopedia A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Platner contributed to the edition of the year 1911, the Encyclopædia Britannica. Platner died at sea on a trip to Europe.

Writings

• The topography and monuments of ancient Rome. 1st Edition, 1904. 2nd revised edition. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 1911 (online).
• A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, together with Thomas Ashby (online as page images, as full text in Perseus, as full text at LacusCurtius [ in part] ).