Benjamin Oliver Foster
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| name = B. O. Foster
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| birth_date = August 13, 1872
| birth_place = Bangor, Maine, U.S.
| death_date = June 22, 1938 (aged 65)
| death_place = Palo Alto, California, U.S.
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}}Benjamin Oliver Foster (1872{{Ndash}}1938) was an American classical philologist and professor at Stanford University.{{Cite web |last=Chambers |first=Mortimer |title=Foster, Benjamin Oliver |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8705-foster-benjamin-oliver |website=Database of Classical Scholars |publisher=Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences}} He is known for his translation of the first five volumes of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–22) for the Loeb Classical Library.
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- {{Cite encyclopedia |year=1994 |title=Foster, Benjamin Oliver |encyclopedia=Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CT |last=Chambers |first=Mortimer |editor-last=Ward |editor-first=W. Briggs |page=192 |isbn=978-0-313245-60-2}}
- {{Cite book |last=Foster |first=B. O. |url=https://archive.org/details/LivyBooks1and2/page/n3/mode/2up |title=Livy I: Books I and II |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1919 |series=Loeb Classical Library |location=Cambridge, MA |orig-date=}}
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