query: instance_of dictionary of greek and roman geography
supports: The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 pages. It is a classic work of 19th-century lexicography. The work is a companion to Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" and "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography". An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia (also spelled encyclopædia, see spelling differences) is a type of reference work or compendium holding a comprehensive summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.
  Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries, which are usually accessed alphabetically by article name. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries. Generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information concerning the subject for which the article is named. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English language encyclopedia first published in 1842. The second, improved and enlarged, edition appeared in 1848, and there were many revised editions up to 1890. The encyclopedia covered law, religion, architecture, warfare, daily life, and similar subjects primarily from the standpoint of a classicist. It was one of a series of reference works on classical antiquity by William Smith, the others cover persons and places. It runs to well over a million words in any edition, and all editions are now in the public domain. The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , first published in 1854 , was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith ( 1813 -- 1893 ) , which included as sister works A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . As declared by Smith in the Preface : `` The Dictionary of Geography ... is designed mainly to illustrate the Greek and Roman writers , and to enable a diligent student to read them in the most profitable manner '' . The book stays up to the description : in two massive volumes the dictionary provides detailed coverage of all the important countries , regions , towns , cities , geographical features that occur in Greek and Roman literature , without forgetting those mentioned solely in the Bible . The work was last reissued in 2005 . A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in "Who's Who", or deceased people only, in the "Dictionary of National Biography"). Others are specialized, in that they cover important names in a subject field, such as architecture or engineering. Lexicography is divided into two separate but equally important groups: Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is a term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia. The term public domain has two senses of meaning. Anything published is out in the public domain in the sense that it is available to the public. Once published news and information in books is in the public domain, although they may also be copyrighted. In the sense of intellectual property, works in the public domain are those whose exclusive intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. For example, the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, and most of the early silent films, are all now in the public domain by either being created before copyrights existed or leaving the copyright term. Examples for works not covered by copyright which are therefore in the public domain, are the formulae of Newtonian physics, cooking recipes and all software before 1974. Examples for works actively dedicated into public domain by their authors are reference implementations of cryptographic algorithms, NIH's ImageJ, and the CIA's "World Factbook". The term is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights, in which case use of the work is referred to as "under license" or "with permission".
candidates: age ancient rome architecture book century cooking dictionary encyclopedia encyclopedic dictionary era field geographical geography history intellectual property language literature may mythology name news preface property public reference work religion sense society software term two work
answer: reference work