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
edit- ^ "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.
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- 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. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
- "Kingham, old and new, studies in a rural parish" by W. Warde Fowler, 1913
- "Obituary. W. Warde-Fowler" by Julian Huxley, from British Birds, Vol 15, No. 6 pp. 143–144
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