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1	The Oxford Classical Dictionary more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor), Antony Spawforth (Editor) For almost half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume resource on the Greco-Roman world. Covering literature, art, philosophy, law, mythology, science, and historical trends, the OCD provides clearly understood yet authoritative information. The Third Edition features 800 new entries--bringing the total to 6 ... see all copies from $39.90! new only from $77.81! \| SVS
2	The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower Unrivaled in scope and scholarship, see all copies from $7.95! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
3	Greek World, 479-323 BC more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, such as Cyrene, Egypt, Asia Minor, Macedon, Italy and Sicily, as well as Athens, Sparta and other great city-states of Greece proper, and in so doing the author draws fully on new ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $37.58!
4	Who's Who in the Classical World more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor), Antony Spawforth (Editor) While books about the gods of antiquity abound, there are few works that give us entrance to the classical world as it existed in the personalities and deeds of its most important citizens. This volume includes biographical entries on nearly 500 individuals of central importance from the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Maps. see all copies from $5.25! new only from $242.96!
5	A Commentary on Thucydides Volume I: Books I - III more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower 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 and the historical background to the war. Books II ... see all copies from $95.00! new only from $95.00! \| SVS
6	A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower 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 Campaign, and Brasidas' operations in the north of ... see all copies from $70.34! new only from $88.70! \| SVS
7	Thucydides more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower see all copies from $108.19!
8	Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower 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 background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the ... see all copies from $37.75! new only from $37.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Oxford Classical Dictionary: Book and CD ROM more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor), Antony Spawforth (Editor) Praised by playwright Arthur Miller as "a delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture" and by Booklist as "the single most heavily used book on classical studies," The Oxford Classical Dictionary is without doubt the definitive one-volume resource on ancient Greece and Rome. Now this redoubtable classic is ... see all copies from $155.00! new only from $162.05!
10	Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor), Elaine Matthews (Editor) This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names. For the ancient Greeks, the assertion of origin was essential in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbors and strangers. Each ... see all copies from $69.71! new only from $76.98!
11	The Cambridge Ancient History more books like this by D M Lewis (Editor), Martin Ostwald (Editor), Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor) Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers years which include the rise of Macedon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great. see all copies from $219.92! new only from $267.40!
12	Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis more books like this by Hornblower Osborne, Robin Osborne (Editor), Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor) 2500 years ago, democracy was born in classical Athens. This collection of essays by twenty-two leading scholars from the UK, Europe, and America, is a twin celebration--it marks this occasion and also the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The essays discuss the religious, financial, and ... see all copies from $211.00! new only from $211.00!
13 view cover	Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire more books like this by Professor Simon Hornblower (Editor), Catherine Morgan (Editor) 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 social and physical context for which it was ... see all copies from $159.00! new only from $159.00! \| SVS

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