Simon Hornblower

Simon Hornblower,

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.

Hornblower was elected to a senior research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, taking up his appointment in Michaelmas Term 2010. At the same time, the

Hornblower has published on classical Greek historiography (especially Herodotus and Thucydides) and the relation between historical texts as literature and as history. He has published an historical and literary commentary on Thucydides in three volumes (Oxford University Press, 1991, 1996, 2008). He further published in this area with the single-author volume Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is also co-editor, with Professor Catherine Morgan of King's College London, of Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (OUP, 2007), a collection of papers by experts on historical, literary, archaeological and anthropological aspects of Pindar and his world. While at UCL, Hornblower turned his attention to the Hellenistic-era poet Lycophron and his cryptic poem the Alexandra, again examining the interface between this poem and the writing of history. At All Souls, he published a text, translation and commentary on the Alexandra (Oxford University Press, 2016) and a monograph on the poem which explored the historical implications of its being dated to the early second century BC.^[5]

Since 1979, he has been involved with the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and co-edited Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2000), a role in which he co-operated closely with Elaine Matthews.

In 1996, he co-edited the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. In 2012, he edited the fourth and most recent edition.

Bibliography

• Hornblower, Simon (1982), Mausolus, Clarendon Press,
  OCLC 8362763
• Hornblower, Simon; Greenstock, M C (1984), The Athenian empire, London Association of Classical Teachers,
  OCLC 17210907
• Hornblower, Simon (1983), The Greek world, 479-323 BC, London,
  OCLC 9685870
• Hornblower, Simon (1987), Thucydides, Johns Hopkins University Press,
  OCLC 15252903
• Hornblower, Simon (1994), Greek historiography, Clarendon Press,
  OCLC 29564218
• Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony (1996), The Oxford classical dictionary, Oxford,
  OCLC 34284310
• Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony (2000), Who's who in the classical world, Oxford University Press,
  OCLC 49260425
• Burn, A R; Walbank, F W; Hornblower, Simon (2002), The Folio history of Ancient Greece, Folio Society,
  OCLC 50578593
• Hornblower, Simon (2004), Thucydides and Pindar : historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry, Oxford,
  OCLC 56655274
• Hornblower, Simon; Morgan, Catherine (2007), Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals : from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, Oxford,
  OCLC 71238475
• Hornblower, Simon (2010) Thucydidean Themes, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-956233-6