Simon Hornblower is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He has written or edited numerous books, most recently Lykophron: Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary and Introduction (2015), and he is the editor of Herodotus: Histories Book V (Cambridge, 2013) in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
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Télécharger le livre : The Returning Hero
Giulia Biffis , Simon Hornblower
The Returning Hero
A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos (plural nostoi),...
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Parution : 2018-09-13

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Télécharger le livre : The Returning Hero
Giulia Biffis , Simon Hornblower
The Returning Hero
A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos (plural nostoi),...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-09-04

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Télécharger le livre : Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
Simon Hornblower
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 lines and with a riddling narrative and a preponderance of unusual vocabulary it is a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-25

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Télécharger le livre : The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Antony Spawforth , Esther Eidinow , Simon Hornblower
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 ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over 2,000 years the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-09-11

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Télécharger le livre : The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Antony Spawforth , Esther Eidinow , Simon Hornblower
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 ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over 2,000 years the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-09-11

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Télécharger le livre : Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals
Catherine Morgan , Simon Hornblower
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 victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of essays about...
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Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre : Thucydides and Pindar
Simon Hornblower
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 stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the `severe style' in prose and verse....
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Parution : 2004-10-08

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