William Warde Fowler

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

1. "FOWLER, William Warde". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 474.
2. Matheson, P. E.; Myfanwy Lloyd (2004). "Fowler, William Warde". In H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
3. H. H. Scullard (1981). Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 12. ISBN 0-500-40041-5.

External links

• Works by William Warde Fowler at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Warde Fowler at Internet Archive
• 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 2007-04-03.
• "Kingham, old and new, studies in a rural parish" by W. Warde Fowler, 1913
• "Obituary. W. Warde-Fowler" by Julian Huxley, from britishbirds.co.uk