Author:George Long

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George Long (1800–1879)

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English classical scholar and editor of the Penny Cyclopedia.

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Articles written by this author are designated in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by the initials "G. L."

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
Articles written by this author are designated in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by the initials "G. L."

Works

• Penny Cyclopaedia, editor
• Knight's Political Dictionary, editor
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Articles signed as [G. L.]
• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, contributor
• Articles signed as [ G. L. ] in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
• Bibliotheca Classica
• Summary of Herodotus (1829)
• Herodotus (1830-1833)
• Journal of Education, editor (1831-1835)
• The British Museum: Egyptian Antiquities I (1832) [1]
• revised editions of JA Macleane's works:
  • Juvenal and Persius (1867)
  • Horace (1869)
• Civil Wars of Rome
• Decline of the Roman Republic (1864-1874), 5 vols

Translations

• Xenophon's Anabasis (1831)
• Plutarch's Lives (1844-1848)
• The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (1862)
• Discourses of Epictetus, (1877)
• Enchiridion of Epictetus (1877)

Works about Long

• H. J. Matthews, In Memoriam, reprinted from the Brighton College Magazine, 1879.
• "Long, George (1800-1879)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Long, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Long, George," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)