Oxford Classical Dictionary

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity,"

The OCD's over 6,400 articles[6] cover everything from the daily life of the ancient Greeks and Romans to their geography, religion, and their historical figures.

Digital and on-line availability

The fourth edition and the third revised edition of the OCD are available online for members of subscribed institutions and for subscribed individuals via Oxford Reference.^[7] The third edition (1996) was also available on CD-ROM, but it is partially incompatible with more recent versions of Windows and has not been revised or re-released.^[8]

The new digital edition is accessible online to institutional and individual subscribers via the Oxford Research Encyclopedias.^[3] Entry extracts/summaries and select full-length entries are freely available to non-subscribing individuals.

Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (OCCC), part of the Oxford Companions^[9] series of Oxford University Press, is an independent publication consisting of a selection of articles from the OCD, with accompanying illustrations. The first edition was published in 1998 (OCCC¹ or OCCC), edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, and contains over 600 articles selected from the OCD³. A paperback edition was issued in 2004. The current second edition was published in 2014 (OCCC²), edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow, and contains over 700 articles selected from the OCD⁴.^[10]

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National Latin Exam

A copy of the OCD has traditionally been offered by the National Latin Exam as a prize for students who obtain four consecutive ascending gold medals on the exam.^[11]

Editions and versions

Oxford Classical Dictionary

• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Max Cary, with the assistance of
  A. Souter. Oxford: Clarendon Press
  , 1949.
• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by
  H. H. Scullard. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press
  , 1970.
• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by
  ISBN 978-0-19-866172-6
  .
• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  ISBN 978-0-19-860641-3
  .
• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and
  ISBN 978-0-19-954556-8
  .
• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by
  ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5
  .

• Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 2004.
  ISBN 978-0-19-860958-2
  (pb).
• Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow. 2nd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  ISBN 978-0-19-870677-9
  .

• Abbreviations for Classical authors and texts
• Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, the comprehensive multivolume classical encyclopædia, also known as Pauly-Wissowa and RE, published in German and English, and explained more fully on Wikipedia's German site
• Der Kleine Pauly (KlP), Der Neue Pauly (DNP), and Brill's New Pauly (BNP), subsequent versions of the RE, and generally explained more fully on Wikipedia's German site
• Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines (DAGR), an extensive multivolume classical encyclopædia published in French
• Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum [de] (RAC), a comprehensive and still-in-production encyclopædia on late antiquity and the interactions between ancient Christians, Jews, Greeks, and Romans, published in German
• Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities

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