Samuel Ball Platner

Samuel Ball Platner was an American classicist and archaeologist.
Platner was born at Unionville, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College. He taught at Case [Western University|Western Reserve University] and is best known as the author of various Topography of [ancient Rome|topographical works on ancient Rome], chief among them A [Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome], completed after Platner's death by Thomas [Ashby (archaeologist)|Thomas Ashby] and published in 1929; and as a contributor to the 1911 Britannica.