Simon Hornblower

About the Author

Simon Hornblower is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many publications in Greek history and classical civilization include A show more Commentary on Thucydides in three volumes (1991-2008). He is now working on commentaries on Herodotus books 5 and 6, and on Lykophron's Alexandra. show less

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A Commentary on Thucydides

Works by Simon Hornblower

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The Oxford Classical Dictionary (1949) 1,051 copies, 9 reviews

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1998) — Editor — 598 copies, 3 reviews

The Greek World 479-323 BC (1983) 207 copies

The Folio History of Ancient Greece : Four Volumes The Lyric Age, The Persian Wars, The Classical Age, The Hellenistic… (2002) 93 copies

The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 6: The Fourth Century B.C. (1994) — Editor — 78 copies

A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books I - III (1991) 54 copies

Who's Who in the Classical World (Oxford Paperback Reference) (2000) — Editor — 46 copies, 1 review

A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 (1996) 31 copies

The Classical Age 29 copies

Thucydides (1987) 26 copies

The Athenian Empire (LACTOR) (2012) 26 copies

A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109 (2008) 23 copies

Greek Historiography (1994) — Editor — 17 copies

Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry‎ (2004) 15 copies

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions: Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206): Part I: Greek, Bilingual, and… (2021) — Editor — 8 copies

Mausolus (1982) 6 copies

Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome and the Hellenistic world (2018) 5 copies

Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (2007) — Editor — 5 copies

Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence (Proceedings of the British Academy) (2000) — Editor — 4 copies

Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts presented to David Lewis (1994) — Editor — 4 copies

Thucydidean themes (2011) 2 copies

The Returning Hero: nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement (2018) — Editor — 1 copy

Classic treatments 1 copy

Records limited 1 copy

La Grecia classica: dalle guerre persiane ad Alessandro Magno (1997) 1 copy

Grandes escritores (2016) 1 copy

Grandes pensadores y científicos (2015) 1 copy

Grandes dirigentes y políticos (2015) 1 copy

Θουκυδίδης: Ο ιστορικός και το έργο του (2003) 1 copy

The Folio Society History of Ancient Greece; The Classical Age, The Greek World, 479-323 BC 1 copy

Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives (2024) 1 copy

The Oxford Classical Dictionary 4th edition by Hornblower, Simon, Spawforth, Antony, Eidinow, Esther (2012) Hardcover (1707) 1 copy

A Commentary on Thucydides (2. vols.) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The World of Odysseus (1954) — Introduction, some editions — 1,155 copies, 8 reviews

The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) 1,126 copies, 2 reviews

The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World (1986) — Contributor, some editions — 686 copies, 4 reviews

The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (2006) — Contributor — 90 copies

Alexandra (1956) — some editions — 69 copies, 2 reviews

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare: Volume 1, Greece, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome (2007) — Contributor — 67 copies, 1 review

Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993 (1992) — Contributor — 50 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009) — Contributor — 25 copies

The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (2004) — Contributor — 24 copies

Brill's Companion to Thucydides (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2006) — Contributor — 22 copies

Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002) — Contributor — 19 copies

Ancient Tyranny (2006) — Contributor — 15 copies

War and Violence in Ancient Greece (2000) — Contributor — 11 copies

The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (2001) — Contributor — 10 copies

War, Peace and World Orders in European History (The New International Relations) (2001) — Contributor — 8 copies

Oxford Readings in Thucydides (2007) — Contributor — 7 copies

The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents) (2020) — Contributor — 7 copies

Polis and Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History (2000) — Contributor — 6 copies

Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names Presented to Elaine Matthews (2010) — Contributor — 5 copies

Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies

Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (2007) — Contributor — 5 copies

Herodotus and His World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003) — Contributor — 5 copies

Reading the Victory Ode (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies

Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400 (2018) — Contributor — 4 copies

Greek history and epigraphy : essays in honour of P.J. Rhodes (2009) — Contributor — 3 copies

Philolakōn : Lakonian studies in honour of Hector Catling (1992) — Contributor — 1 copy

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