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Hannibal and Scipio
Parallel Lives
E-bok, 2024
606 kr
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The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage''s commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio. The two men were born about a decade apart but died in the same year, 183, following brilliant but …
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Esther Eidinow, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
537 kr
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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 civilizations of ancient …
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Esther Eidinow, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
537 kr
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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 civilizations of ancient …
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
E-bok, 2018
1581 kr
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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 notoriously challenging prospect …
Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals
From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire
Av Catherine Morgan, Simon Hornblower
E-bok, 2007
2193 kr
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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 that literature, and about …
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
E-bok, 2018
1581 kr
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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 notoriously challenging prospect …
Returning Hero
nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement
Av Giulia Biffis, Simon Hornblower
E-bok, 2018
1876 kr
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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 ), from which is derived the …
Returning Hero
nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement
Av Giulia Biffis, Simon Hornblower
E-bok, 2018
1876 kr
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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 ), from which is derived the …
Greek Personal Names
Their Value as Evidence
Av Elaine Matthews, Simon Hornblower
Inbunden, 2000
998 kr
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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 themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books iv-v.24
Inbunden, 1996
3601 kr
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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 between Athens and Sparta. Books iv-v.24 cover the years 425-421 BC and contain the Pylos-Spakteria narrative, the Delion …
Ritual, Finance, Politics
Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis
Av Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower
Inbunden, 1994
1501 kr
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This book is a celebration of two thousand five hundred years of democracy. At the same time it is a collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The book brings together contributions from twenty two leading …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books i-iii
Häftad, 1997
3285 kr
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This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Of the three books covered in this volume, Book I presents Thucydides' aims in writing the work …
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Av Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
730 kr
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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 civilizations of ancient Greece …
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
Inbunden, 2018
2283 kr
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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 notoriously challenging prospect …
Lykophron: Alexandra
Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction
Häftad, 2017
964 kr
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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 Hellenistic period (most likely the early second century BC). Most of the poem purports to be a prophecy by the mythical Trojan …
The Returning Hero
nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement
Av Biffis Hornblower, Simon Hornblower m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2705 kr
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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), from which is derived the …
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions: Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206)
Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt
Av Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
3007 kr
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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 in 332 BC and the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. The Corpus offers scholarly editions, with translations, …
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt - Volume 2, The Fayum and the Valley (Nos. 207-409)
Av Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3515 kr
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This is the second of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period from Alexander's conquest in 332 BC to the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. This volume contains 221 numbered items (some covering …
Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and Trilingual Inscriptions from Egypt - Volume 2, The Fayum and the Valley (Nos. 207-409)
Av Kyriakos Savvopoulos, Rachel Mairs m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
2757 kr
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This is the second of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period from Alexander''s conquest in 332 BC to the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC. This volume contains 221 numbered items (some covering …
Thucydides and Pindar
Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry
Inbunden, 2004
4444 kr
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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. In Part One he explores the …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24
Häftad, 2005
2248 kr
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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 between Athens and Sparta. Books IV-V. 24 cover the years 425-421 BC and contain the Pylos-Spakteria narrative, the Delion …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109
Inbunden, 2008
3662 kr
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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 War' (between the Athenians and Spartans and their respective allies) written by the great fifth-century BC historian …
Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals
From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire
Av MORGAN HORNBLOWER, Simon Hornblower m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3443 kr
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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 that literature, and about the …
Thucydides and Pindar
Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry
Häftad, 2006
1429 kr
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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. In Part One he explores the …
Thucydidean Themes
Inbunden, 2010
2441 kr
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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 Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three main parts (general; discussions of particular …
Lykophron: Alexandra
Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction
Inbunden, 2015
4459 kr
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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 Hellenistic period (most likely the early second century BC). Most of the poem purports to be a prophecy by the mythical Trojan …
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109
Häftad, 2010
1708 kr
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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 War' (between the Athenians and Spartans and their respective allies) written by the great fifth-century BC historian …
Greek World 479-323 BC
Inbunden, 2011
2585 kr
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The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In …
Greek World 479-323 BC
Häftad, 2011
786 kr
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The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In …
The Cambridge Ancient History
Av D. M. Lewis, John Boardman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
4530 kr
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Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its …
