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The Oxford Classical Dictionary
'offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks...offers a cornucopia of accurate and succinct knowledge that …
Lykophron: Alexandra
The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the …
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109
This is the third and final volume (Vol. I 1991, Vol. II 1996) of a historical and literary commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the twenty-seven-year 'Peloponnesian …
Thucydidean Themes
Thucydidean Themes is a collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably …
Thucydides and Pindar
Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect …
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
This volume takes as its subject one of the most important Greek poems of the Hellenistic period: the Alexandra attributed to Lykophron, probably written in about 190 BC. At 1474 …
Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals
Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24
This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary of the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War …
Greek Personal Names
Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished …
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions: Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206)
This is the first of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions of Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period between Alexander's conquest …
A Commentary on Thucydides
Simon Hornblower's great commentary on Thucydides has been hailed as a superb accomplishment by a brilliant scholar. Now all three volumes are available in paperback as a specially …