Author:William Ridgeway

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William Ridgeway (1853–1926)

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Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Brereton Reader in Classics, in the University of Cambridge. Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Fellow of the British Academy. President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1908

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "W. Ri"

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. Ri"

Works

• The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards (1892) (transcription project) (external scan)
• The Early Age of Greece (1901) vol 1,
• The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse (1905) (external scan)
• Who were the Romans? (1907) (external scan)
• The Origin of Tragedy, with Special Reference to Greek Tragedians (1910) (external scan)
• Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races (1915). (external scan)

Contributions to EB9

• “Umbria” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

• "Achaeans," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Celt (people)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Introduction)
• "Hallstatt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Thrace," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Ancient Peoples)
• "Villanova," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Greek Trade Routes to Britain" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890), pp. 82–107

Works about Ridgeway

• "Ridgeway, Sir William," in Thom's Irish Who's Who (p. 218), Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co. (1923)