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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 particular, this fourth edition
takes full account of recent and detailed scholarship on Greek
poleis across the Hellenic world, allowing for further development
of the key theme of regional variety across the Mediterranean and
beyond. Other extensive changes include a new sub-chapter on
Islands, a completely updated bibliography, and revised citation of
epigraphic material relating to the fourth-century BC. With
valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek
culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta,
and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this fourth
edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever
before.
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 particular, this fourth edition
takes full account of recent and detailed scholarship on Greek
poleis across the Hellenic world, allowing for further development
of the key theme of regional variety across the Mediterranean and
beyond. Other extensive changes include a new sub-chapter on
Islands, a completely updated bibliography, and revised citation of
epigraphic material relating to the fourth-century BC. With
valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek
culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta,
and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this fourth
edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever
before.
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 Thucydides. The present volume of
commentary covers the ten closely-narrated years 421-411 BC, and
nearly half of the total of eight 'books' (subdivisions) of
Thucydides' work. It includes one of the most famous sections of
ancient Greek literary writing, the lengthy and supremely dramatic
account of the disastrous Athenian expedition against Sicily
(415-413) in Books 6 and 7; but also the Melian Dialogue (Book 5),
a notorious document of Athenian imperialism; and the account of
the oligarchic revolution at Athens in 411 (Book 8). All Greek is
translated. There is a thematic General Introduction and two
Appendixes.
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 Greece. This volume ends with the Peace
of Nikias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta. A valuable
feature of this volume is the full thematic introduction which
discusses such topics as Thucydides and Herodotus, Thucydides'
presentation of Brasidas, Thucydides and kinship, speech - direct
and indirect - in IV-V. 24, Thucydides and epigraphy (including
personal names), IV-V. 24 as a work of art: innovative or merely
incomplete? Thucydides intended his work to be `an everlasting
possession' and the continuing importance of his work is
undisputed. Simon Hornblower's commentary, by translating every
passage of Greek commented on, for the first time allows readers
with little or no Greek to appreciate the detail of Thucydides'
thought and subject-matter. A full index is provided at the end of
the volume.
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. All Greek is translated, to that the work is accessible to those with little or no knowledge of the ancient language.
Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive
defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It
is Livy's best and most dramatic book, and the one most likely to
appeal to students at every level. Livy drew on the Greek historian
Polybius, but transformed his drier treatment into a rhetorical
masterpiece, which by a series of insistent thematic contrasts
brings out the tensions between the delaying tactics of Fabius and
the costly rashness of Flaminius, Minucius and Varro. A substantial
and accessibly written introduction by two experienced commentators
covers historical, religious, literary and linguistic matters,
including the place of Book XXII in the structure of Livy's long
work. A new text by Briscoe is followed by a full commentary,
covering literary and historical aspects and offering frequent help
with translation. The volume is suitable for undergraduates,
graduate students, teachers, and scholars.
Warfare was only one form of the violence that had a profound
impact on Archaic and Classical Greek society, literature and
government. This important series of thirteen papers, from a
seminar held in London in 1998, places private and public conflict
within its wider context. The papers are divided into five
sections: causes of war, forms of violence within the polis, beyond
the classical phalanx, war and rebellion, and continuities in
Hellenistic warfare. Chapters describe social violence, as in
Sparta, full-scale warfare on land and at sea, the representation
of warfare in Greek epic and Hellenistic military leadership.
Papers also examine the practicalities of Greek warfare, such as
the use of deception as a tactic, and the significant influence of
religion in warfare, including sacrifices before a battle and the
role of Athena, who symbolised everything that the Greeks thought
good about war. Contributors: J E Lendon, Jonathan Shay, Simon
Hornblower, Nick Fisher, Hans van Wees, Peter Krentz, Victor Davis
Hanson, Louis Rawlings, Barry S Strauss, Susan Deacy, Robert
Parker, Paul Beston and John Ma.
Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books,
beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving
on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes
fascinating material on Sparta, full of court intrigue and
culminating in Kleomenes' grisly death, and there is comedy too,
with Alkmeon's cramming clothes, boots, and even cheeks with gold
dust, then Hippokleides 'dancing away his marriage'. In Herodotus'
time, Marathon was already reaching almost legendary status,
commemorated in epigrams and monuments, and in this edition a
substantial introduction discusses Herodotus' relation to these
other memorials. It also explores the place of the book in the
Histories' overall structure, and pays particular attention to
Herodotus' treatment of impiety. A new text is then accompanied by
a full commentary, covering literary and historical aspects and
offering help with translation. The volume is suitable for
undergraduates, graduate students, teachers and scholars.
Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books,
beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving
on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes
fascinating material on Sparta, full of court intrigue and
culminating in Kleomenes' grisly death, and there is comedy too,
with Alkmeon's cramming clothes, boots, and even cheeks with gold
dust, then Hippokleides 'dancing away his marriage'. In Herodotus'
time, Marathon was already reaching almost legendary status,
commemorated in epigrams and monuments, and in this edition a
substantial introduction discusses Herodotus' relation to these
other memorials. It also explores the place of the book in the
Histories' overall structure, and pays particular attention to
Herodotus' treatment of impiety. A new text is then accompanied by
a full commentary, covering literary and historical aspects and
offering help with translation. The volume is suitable for
undergraduates, graduate students, teachers and scholars.
One of the most important works of history in Western literature,
by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors,
Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient
Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely
studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the
revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led
to the great Persian Wars of 490-479 BC, but also provides
fascinating material about the mainland Greek states in the sixth
century BC. This is an up-to-date edition of and commentary on the
Greek text of the book, providing extensive help with the Greek,
basic historical information and clear maps, as well as lucid and
insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text. The
volume is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,
teachers and scholars.
One of the most important works of history in Western literature,
by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors,
Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient
Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely
studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the
revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led
to the great Persian Wars of 490-479 BC, but also provides
fascinating material about the mainland Greek states in the sixth
century BC. This is an up-to-date edition of and commentary on the
Greek text of the book, providing extensive help with the Greek,
basic historical information and clear maps, as well as lucid and
insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text. The
volume is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,
teachers and scholars.
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 values shared by the two authors, and
religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically
organized survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting
onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides'
account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four
components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar;
statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative,
especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison
of Thucydides and Pindar.
'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 would be hard to
equal' (Peter Green, Washington Times about the third edition). For
over sixty years, The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the
unrivalled one-volume reference in the field of classics. Now
completely revised and updated to include the very latest research
findings, developments, and publications, this highly acclaimed
reference work will be the most up-to-date and comprehensive
dictionary available on all aspects of the classical era. In over
6,700 entries written by the very best of classical scholars from
around the world, the Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and
Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy,
law, science, art, archaeology, near eastern studies, and late
antiquity. New entries supplement the existing material, including
entries on topics such as Adrasteia, Latin anthologies, Jewish art,
ancient religious beliefs, emotions, film, gender, kinship, and
many more. Other specific developments include an added focus on
two new areas: 'anthropology ' and 'reception'. All entries are
written in an accessible style and all Latin and Greek words have
been translated to ensure ease of use. Under the editorship of
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, and Esther Eidinow, a huge
range of contributors have revised and updated the text, which has
made an already outstanding work even better. The Dictionary
covers: 1) politics, government, economy - from political figures
to political systems, terms and practices, histories of major
states and empires, economic theory, agriculture, artisans and
industry, trade and markets 2) religion and mythology - deities and
mythological creatures, beliefs and rituals, sanctuaries and sacred
buildings, astrology 3) law and philosophy - from biographies of
lawgivers and lawyers to legal terms and procedures, from major and
minor philosophers to philosophical schools, terms, and concepts 4)
science and geography - scientists and specific theory and
practice, doctors and medicine, climate and landscape, natural
disasters, regions and islands, cities and settlements,
communications 5) languages, literature, art, and architecture -
languages and dialects, writers and literary terms and genres,
orators and rhetorical theory and practice, drama and performance,
art, painters and sculptors, architects, buildings and materials 6)
archaeology and historical writing - amphorae and pottery,
shipwrecks and cemeteries, historians, and Greek and Roman
historiography 7) military history - generals, arms and armour,
famous battles, attitudes to warfare 8) social history, sex, and
gender - women and the family, kinship, peasants and slaves,
attitudes to sexuality
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 values shared by the two authors, and
religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically
organized survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting
onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides'
account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four
components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar;
statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative,
especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison
of Thucydides and Pindar.
This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC Greek historian. Books iv-v.24 contain the Pylos-Sphakteria narrative and Brasidas' operations in the north of Greece. All the Greek is translated and there is a full index. A new feature is the provision of a thematic introduction.
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