Benjamin Oliver Foster
B. O. Foster | |
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| Born | August 13, 1872 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | June 22, 1938 (aged 65) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Katharine Elizabeth Dohan
(m. 1938) |
Benjamin Oliver Foster (1872–1938) was an American classical philologist and professor at Stanford University.[1] He is known for his translation of the first five volumes of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–22) for the Loeb Classical Library.[1]
Personal life[edit]
He married Anna Lee on June 3, 1902.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Chambers, Mortimer. "Foster, Benjamin Oliver". Database of Classical Scholars. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
Bibliography[edit]
- Chambers, Mortimer (1994). "Foster, Benjamin Oliver". In Ward, W. Briggs (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2.
- Foster, B. O. (1919). Livy I: Books I and II. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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