Frank Frost Abbott (March 27, 1860 – July 23, 1924) was an American

classical scholar Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

Life

Born in

Redding, Connecticut Redding is a New England town, town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 8,765 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Regi ...

, he taught at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

, then moved to

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1907. He died in

Montreux Montreux (, ; ; ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, Swiss municipality and List of towns in Switzerland, town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Swiss Alps, Alps. It belongs to the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut (district), Riviera-Pays ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

Works

* ''Selected Letters of Cicero'' (1897). * ''A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions'' (1901). * ''A Short History of Rome'' (1906) * ''Society and Politics in Ancient Rome'' (1909). * ''The Common People of Ancient Rome'' (1911). * ''Roman Politics'' (1923). * ''Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire'' (1926). He also translated

Alberico Gentili Alberico Gentili (14 January 155219 June 1608) was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford for 21 ye ...

's ''Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Dvo'' ("Two Books of Advocacy in the Service of Spain").

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Daily Princetonian, June 10 1908
American classical scholars 1860 births 1924 deaths Classical scholars of the University of Chicago Classical scholars of Princeton University People from Redding, Connecticut Historians of ancient Rome {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub