Samuel Ball Platner

Not to be confused with the somewhat earlier Roman topographer Ernst Platner.

Samuel Ball Platner (December 4, 1863 – August 20, 1921) was an American classicist and archaeologist.^[1]

The Comitium as recently excavated

Platner was born at Unionville, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College. He taught at Western Reserve University^[2] and is best known as the author of various topographical works on ancient Rome,^[3] chief among them A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, completed after Platner's death by Thomas Ashby and published in 1929;^[4] and as a contributor to the 1911 Britannica.

Bibliography

• The topography and monuments of ancient Rome (1st ed. 1904; 2nd rev ed. 1911; Boston, Allyn & Bacon).^[3]