Antiquarian
Aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.
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Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county of Wiltshire.
Archaeology
Scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Archaeology developed out of antiquarianism in Europe during the 19th century, and has since become a discipline practiced around the world.
Aulus Gellius
Aulus Gellius (c.
Aulus Gellius (c.
He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism, and other subjects, preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might otherwise be unknown today.
Macrobius
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl.
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl.
He is primarily known for his writings, which include the widely copied and read Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis ("Commentary on the Dream of Scipio") about Somnium Scipionis, which was one of the most important sources for Neoplatonism in the Latin West during the Middle Ages; the Saturnalia, a compendium of ancient Roman religious and antiquarian lore; and De differentiis et societatibus graeci latinique verbi ("On the Differences and Similarities of the Greek and Latin Verb"), which is now lost.
William Camden
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
William Dugdale
Sir William Dugdale (12 September 1605 – 10 February 1686) was an English antiquary and herald.
Deipnosophistae
Early 3rd-century AD Greek work by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis.
Early 3rd-century AD Greek work by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis.
It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on.
Antiquities
Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.
Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.
A person who studies antiquities, as opposed to just collecting them, is often called an antiquarian.
Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy.
Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole , 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.