Extensive lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology

The detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology is a multi-volume reference work on ancient mythology . It was founded in 1884 by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher and carried out in six volumes with the help of numerous specialists. The aim of the project was to present the Greco-Roman myths and cults as objectively and completely as possible, taking into account the monuments.

The volumes were published in loose succession, usually at intervals of several years, by BG Teubner Verlag . Nevertheless, the lexicon came to an end. After Roscher's death (1923) Konrat Ziegler took over the editing .

Volume 1, Division 1: Aba – Evan (1886)
Volume 1, Division 2: Euxistratos – Hysiris. Preliminary Supplements to Volume 1 (1890)
Volume 2, Division 1: Iache – Kyzikos (1894)
Volume 2, Division 2: Laas – Myton (1897)
Volume 3, Division 1: Nabaiothes – Pasicharea (1902)
Volume 3, Division 2: Pasikrateia – Pyxios and Palladion – Phoinix (1909)
Volume 4: Qu – S (1909–1915)
Volume 5: T (1924)
Volume 6: U – Zyrratêl and supplements: Abaios – Twelve Gods, Acerbas – Telephos (1937)

Four supplements were published:

Karl Friedrich Bruchmann : Epitheta deorum quae apud poetas graecos leguntur , Leipzig 1893
Jesse Benedict Carter : Epitheta deorum quae apud poetas latinos leguntur , Leipzig 1902
Ernst Hugo Berger : Mythical Cosmography of the Greeks , Leipzig 1904
Otto Group : History of Classical Mythology and History of Religion , Leipzig 1921

The lexicon is simply called "the Roscher" after its founder and long-time editor. It is still regarded as a standard work and was reprinted unchanged in 1965 and 1992/1993. At the same time, some employees worked on the revision of Pauly's Realencyclopedia of classical antiquity .

The work was only replaced by the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (1981–1999), but it can still be consulted for philological and research-historical questions today.

Employees in alphabetical order

A.

Emil Aust

B.

Karl Bapp • Julius Adolf Bernhard • Oskar Bie • Theodor Birt • Leo Bloch • Karl Friedrich Bruchmann • Walter Bubbe • Heinrich Bulle • Karl Buslepp

C.

Jesse Benedict Carter • Otto Crusius • Franz Cumont

D.

Wilhelm Deecke • Friedrich Deneken • Ludwig Deubner • Franz Dornseiff • Friedrich Reinhold Dressler • Wilhelm Drexler

E.

Theodor Eisele • Richard Engelmann • Alexander Enmann

F.

Ernst Fabricius • Eugen Fehrle • Eva Fiesel • Adam Flasch • C. Fleischer • Reinhold Franz • Paul Friedländer • Adolf Furtwängler

G

Rudolph Gaedechens • Paul Gläßer • Wilhelm Greve • Otto Group • Wilhelm Gundel

H

Franz Hannig • Ferdinand Haug • Johannes Hugo Helbig • Paul Herrmann • P. Hirsch • Otto Höfer • Richard Holland

I.

Max Ihm • Johannes Ilberg • Otto Immisch

J

Alfred Jeremias • Otto Jessen

K

Johann Baptist Keune • Joseph Klek • Adolf Klügmann • Georg Knaack • S. Krauss • Kreuzer • Heinrich Küentzle • Ernst Kuhnert

L.

Hans Lamer • Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt • Max Lehnerdt • Heinrich Lewy • Reinhold von Lichtenberg • Balduin Lorentz

M.

Robert Mackrodt • Maximilian Mayer • Otto Meltzer • Eduard Meyer • Elard Hugo Meyer

O

Georg Oertel • Kurt Orinsky • Hermann Easter • Walter F. Otto

P

Carl Pauli • W. Pauli • Rudolf Peter • Friedrich Pfister • Richard Pietschmann • Karl Pilling • Karl Preisendanz • August Preuner • August Procksch • Karl Purgold

Q

Fritz Quilling

R.

Adolf Rapp • August Reifferscheid • Franz Richter • Günther Roeder • Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher • Otto Rossbach • Otto Rubensohn • Ludwig Ruhl

S.

Bruno Sauer • Christian Scherer • Willy Scheuer • Adolf Schirmer • Johannes Schmidt • Theodor Schreiber • August Schultz • Wolfgang Schultz • Eduard Schwartz • Konrad Seeliger • Johannes Sieveking • Georg Steindorff • Hermann Steuding • Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll • Franz Studniczka • Ludwig von Sybel

T

Eduard Thraemer • Karl Tümpel • Gustav Türk

V

Julius Vogel • Friedrich Adolf Voigt

W.

Richard Wagner • Otto Waser • Georg Weicker • Otto Weinreich • Paul Weizsäcker • Ludwig Less • Konrad Wernicke • Sam Wide • Erich Wilisch • Georg Wissowa • Oswald Wolff • Emil Wörner • Richard Wünsch

Z

Konrat Ziegler

Remarks

↑ The volume was probably not completed until 1920, as Eduard Thrämer († 1916), Otto Crusius († 1918) and Otto Höfer († December 4, 1919) are marked as deceased on the title page.

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[1] The volume was probably not completed until 1920, as Eduard Thrämer († 1916), Otto Crusius († 1918) and Otto Höfer († December 4, 1919) are marked as deceased on the title page.