Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the publication format?Published in 10 volumes, with supplementary fascicles
2. When did people start and finish writing the book?The project began in 1873 and the final volumes were published in 1919, taking 46 years to complete.
3. Who helped write the book?It started with Charles Daremberg and Edmond Saglio, and many classicists, archaeologists, and philologists added their knowledge over the years.

Philology: The study of language in oral and written historical sources; a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics.
Lexicon: A vocabulary of a language, especially as found in a dictionary; a comprehensive dictionary or encyclopedia.
Classical Antiquity: The historical period encompassing the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, generally from the earliest Greek literature to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.