William Warde Fowler (16 May 1847 – 15 June 1921) was an English historian and ornithologist, and tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford.1 He was best known for his works on ancient Roman religion.2
Among his most influential works was The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (1899). H. H. Scullard, in the introduction to his 1981 book on a similar topic, singled out Fowler's book as a particularly valuable resource despite its age, writing, "I have not been so presumptuous as to attempt to provide an alternative."3
References
References
- "FOWLER, William Warde". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 474.
- Matheson, P. E.; Myfanwy Lloyd (2004). "Fowler, William Warde". In H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
- H. H. Scullard (1981). Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 12. ISBN 0-500-40041-5.
External links
External links
- Works by William Warde Fowler at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Warde Fowler at the Internet Archive
- Works by William Warde Fowler at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The City-State of the Greeks and Romans: a survey introductory to the study of Ancient History (1895)
- Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System (1903)
- Rome Home University Library (1912)
- Roman Ideas of Deity in the last century before the Christian Era Oxford lectures (1914)
- Roman Essays and Interpretations (1920)
- Ahn, Shin. "William Warde Fowler". Gifford Lectures online. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
- "Kingham, old and new, studies in a rural parish" by W. Warde Fowler, 1913