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Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
PhD Classics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Simon Hornblower, FBA is an English classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and, before retiring, was most recently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

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The Oxford Classical Dictionary (2012) (350)
A commentary on Thucydides (1991) (249)
The Greek world, 479-323 BC (1986) (97)
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition (1996) (93)
The fourth-century and Hellenistic reception of Thucydides (1995) (76)
The Religious Dimension to the Peloponnesian War, or, What Thucydides Does Not Tell Us (1992) (74)
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1998) (72)
Ritual, finance, politics : Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis (1994) (58)
Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (2004) (49)
Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals: from archaic Greece to the Roman empire (2007) (47)
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World (2018) (47)
Thucydides and Pindar (2004) (40)
When Was Megalopolis Founded? (1990) (34)
Herodotus and his Sources of Information (2002) (29)
The Great Satraps' Revolt (1990) (28)
A reaction to gunter's look at Hekatomnid patronage from Labraunda (1990) (26)
Greek agriculture in the classical period (1994) (25)
Historians of Alexander (1984) (24)
Alexander the Great and the Greeks : the epigraphic evidence (1981) (24)
The Old Oligarch (Pseudo-Xenophon's Athenaion Politeia) and Thucydides. A Fourth-Century Date for the Old Oligarch? (2000) (22)
Did the Delphic Amphiktiony Play a Political Role in the Classical Period? (2007) (21)
Thebes in the 360s B.C. (1994) (20)
Narratology and Narrative Techniques in Thucydides (2010) (20)
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. I: Books I-III (1993) (18)
Greek personal names : their value as evidence (2000) (18)
Thucydides, the Panionian Festival, and the Ephesia (3. 104)*1 (2010) (18)
Egypt, 404–332 B.C. (1994) (18)
No History Without Culture (2005) (18)
The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy (1994) (17)
Commentary on Thucydides volume III, Books 5. 25 - 8. 109 (2008) (17)
Sticks, Stones and Spartans: The Sociology of Spartan Violence (2000) (16)
Macedon and north-west Greece (1994) (16)
Herodotus' Influence in Antiquity (2006) (13)
Warfare in ancient literature: the paradox of war (2007) (13)
Herodotus: Histories Book V (2013) (12)
The Growth of Schools and the Advance of Knowledge (1994) (12)
Thucydides, Xenophon and Lichas: were the Spartans excluded from the Olympic Games from 420 to 400 B.C.? (2000) (11)
Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals (2007) (11)
Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories (1994) (10)
Who's who in the classical world (2003) (9)
LYKOPHRON AND EPIGRAPHY: THE VALUE AND FUNCTION OF CULT EPITHETS IN THE ALEXANDRA (2014) (8)
Epic and Epiphanies: Herodotus and the 'New Simonides' (2001) (8)
Cyprus and Phoenicia (1994) (8)
Greek Identity in the Archaic and Classical Periods (2008) (8)
Intertextuality without Texts in Archaic Greek Verse and the Plan of Zeus (2017) (6)
Greek Lyric and the Politics and Sociologies of Archaic and Classical Greek Communities (2009) (6)
Personal Names and the Study of the Ancient Greek Historians (2000) (6)
Sicily, 413–368 B.C. (1994) (6)
Reading Herodotus: The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt (5.42–8) (2007) (5)
Herodotus: Histories Book VI (2017) (5)
Macedonian hegemony created (1994) (5)
Rhodes (2018) (5)
Reading the Victory Ode: What happened later to the families of Pindaric patrons – and to epinician poetry? (2012) (4)
Did the Delphic Amphictiony Play a Political Role in the Classical Period?’, Mediterranean Historical Review 22 (2007), 39-56 (2007) (4)
The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Fourth Edition (2013) (4)
Dion and Timoleon (1994) (4)
A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24 (1996) (4)
Sources and their Uses (1994) (3)
Pindar and kingship theory (2006) (3)
The Cambridge Ancient History VI: The Fourth Century B.C. (1997) (3)
Thracians and Scythians (1994) (3)
Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides' Spartan Debates (2003) (3)
Thucydides’ awareness of herodotus or. Herodotus’ awareness of thucydides? (2010) (2)
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation (1998) (2)
‘This was Decided’ (ἔδοξϵ ταῦτα): The Army as polis in Xenophon’s Anabasis—and Elsewhere (2010) (2)
Thucydides and Greek History (1990) (2)
Thucydides and ‘Chalkidic’ Torone (IV.110.1) (1997) (2)
Greek art: Classical to Hellenistic (1994) (1)
Greeks and Persians: East and West (2001) (1)
The Second Athenian Confederacy (1982) (1)
Arrian Philip A. Stadter: Arrian of Nicomedia. Pp. xi + 256; maps on endpapers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. $18.50. (1981) (1)
Agariste’s Suitors (2014) (1)
Thucydides and the Argives (2006) (1)
The Population of Athens (1987) (1)
Thucydides and the Athenian boule (Council of Five Hundred) (2009) (1)
(M.) Chambers Valla's Translation of Thucydides in Vat. Lat. 1801 with the Reproduction of the Codex . (Studi e Testi 445.) Pp. xxiv + 367, colour pls. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2008. Paper. ISBN: 978-88-210-0836-8. (2010) (1)
Review. The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word. G Crane (1997) (1)
Thucydides on Boiotia and Boiotians (2010) (1)
Carthage from the battle at Himera to Agathocles' invasion (480–308 B.C.) (1994) (1)
'Dolphins in the Sea' (Pindar, Isthmian 9 line7): Pindar and the Aiginetans (2007) (1)
(A. J.) Heisserer Alexander the Great and the Greeks: the epigraphic evidence . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1980. Pp. xvii + 252, [25] plates, 7 text figs, [3] maps. $29.95. (1982) (1)
Sticks, Stones, and Spartans (2010) (1)
‘THE BEST AVAILABLE TEXT OF THUCYDIDES’ (2002) (1)
The Peloponnesian War (review) (2000) (1)
The General Demosthenes (1994) (1)
democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical (2016) (1)
Thucydides and Plataian Perjury (2007) (1)
Artemidorus (2), fl. 104–101 BCE (2016) (0)
Lionel Scott: Historical Commentary on Herodotus Book 6 (2008) (0)
Stesimbrotus, biographer, fl. late 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Introduction to Part II (2015) (0)
Thucydides Historiae VI-VIII (2002) (0)
Artemisia (1), ruler, early 5th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Arrian - A. B. Bosworth: A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander . Vol. 1: Commentary on Books I–III . Pp. xvi + 396; 6 maps. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. £30. (1981) (0)
Culture, Religion, and Myths of Identity in the Alexandra (2018) (0)
Humane Thucydides (1997) (0)
Marcellinus (2), biographer of Thucydides (2016) (0)
The Ancient Historiography of Warfare (2007) (0)
The Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (2020) (0)
David Malcom Lewis (1997) (0)
Ptolemaeus (1), of Ascalon, Greek author (2016) (0)
Hecatomnus, of Mylasa (2015) (0)
Cratippus of Athens, historian (2015) (0)
Theagenes (3), of Thasos, Olympic victor (2016) (0)
Demosthenes (1), Athenian general, d. 413 BCE (2016) (0)
Callias (5), of Syracuse, Greek historian at court of Agathocles (1) (2015) (0)
The Raw materials of Ancient History (1984) (0)
Thrasymachus of Chalcedon, fl. c. 430–400 BCE (2016) (0)
Croesus, last king of Lydia, c. 560–546 BCE (2016) (0)
Lysanias (1), of Mallus, Eretrian historian (2016) (0)
Nicias (1), Athenian politician and general, c. 470–413 BCE (2016) (0)
Biton, 3rd or 2nd cent. BCE (2015) (0)
King's Peace (2015) (0)
The Hellenistic Kingdoms (2018) (0)
Lamachus, Athenian general, d. 414 BCE (2016) (0)
The Clearest Example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5. 49–50. 4. 4, The Olympic Games of 420 bc (2004) (0)
Long Walls, the (2016) (0)
D.Boedeker and K.Raaflaub (eds.), Democracy and the arts in fifth-century Athens, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 5 pages (1999) (0)
Religion, Myths, Women, Colonization (2004) (0)
In and out of Thucydides (1997) (0)
Peter Högemann: Alexander der Grosse und Arabien . (Zetemata, 82.) Pp. ix + 236; 9 maps and drawings in text. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1985. Paper, DM 65. (1988) (0)
sea power, Greek and Roman (2016) (0)
Archelaus (5), king of Cappadocia, 36 BCE–17 CE (2015) (0)
Xenion, Hellenistic historian (2016) (0)
Mentor (2), Rhodian mercenary leader (2016) (0)
Thucydides, Xenophon, and Lichas (2010) (0)
(V.) Jennings, (A.) Katsaros (edd.) The World of Ion of Chios . (Mnemosyne Supplementum 288.) Pp. xiv + 449. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Cased, €99, US$139. ISBN: 978-90-04-16045-3. (2010) (0)
Midas (2), king of Phrygia, 738–696/695 BCE (2016) (0)
Greece, prehistory and history (2016) (0)
Pherecydes (2), of Athens, 'the geneaologist' (2016) (0)
Review. Word and Concept in Thucydides. JW Allison (1999) (0)
Alexander the Great (1982) (0)
Philemon (5), Greek actor, mid-4th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Thucydides and the Delphic Amphiktiony (2010) (0)
Campania, Latium, and Rome (2018) (0)
Power and Preparedness in Thucydides (2008) (0)
Peloponnesian War, 431–404 BCE (2016) (0)
Thucydides and 'Chalcidic' Torone (1997) (0)
Olympiodorus (1), democratic Athenian commander, fl. 307–280 BCE (2016) (0)
Euboea, 'rich in cattle' (2015) (0)
"What Alkibiades Did and Suffered" — But Not What He Looked Like: Physical Appearance in the Ancient Greek Historians (2017) (0)
Hugo Montgomery: The Way to Chaeronea: Foreign Policy. Decision Making and Political Influence in Demosthenes' Speeches . Pp. 120. Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromso: Universitetsforlaget, 1984. Paper, £15.65. (1985) (0)
Xenagoras, 3rd or 2nd cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Nicole Loraux: Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (Translated by Anthony Forster) . Pp. xi + 100. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. £11.95. (1989) (0)
Cineas (1), founder of Ai Khanoum (Afghanistan) (2016) (0)
Speusippus, Athenian philosopher, c. 407–339 BCE (2016) (0)
Orus, of Alexandria (2016) (0)
war, rules of (2016) (0)
Boeotius, treaty of (2015) (0)
Callimachus (1), Athenian polemarchos (2015) (0)
intolerance, intellectual and religious (2015) (0)
Perses, of Thebes (1) (2016) (0)
Phaenias, of Eresus, fl. 320 BCE (2016) (0)
Lamian War, 323–322 BCE (2016) (0)
A Heavyweight History of Greece (1984) (0)
The Alexandra is a perplexing, enigmatic poem that takes the form of a prophecy spoken by Kassandra before the onset of the Trojan War, as retold to Priam by the man charged with guarding (2021) (0)
Menaechmus (1), of Sicyon, Greek historian (2015) (0)
Sicily and Magna Graecia (South Italy) (2018) (0)
Apollodorus (9), Greek author of the Bibliotheca, 2nd cent. CE (2016) (0)
Choerilus (3), of Iasus, Greek epic poet (2016) (0)
Argos80 Introduction: the physical setting and the sources (2011) (0)
Thucydides 5.49-50, the Olympic Games of 420 BC: Narrative Structure and Technique (2010) (0)
The Sinews of War (1994) (0)
Ptolemy (3), of Cyrene, Sceptic philosopher, c. 100 BCE (2016) (0)
Xenarchus (1), Sicilian mime-writer (2016) (0)
‘Antiquarian’ Excursuses 1 (2004) (0)
Could Thucydides have known Pindar and did he (2004) (0)
Sinuri, sanctuary of (2016) (0)
Edwin Murphy: The Antiquities of Asia: a Translation with Notes of Book II of the Library of History of Diodorus Siculus . Pp. xvii+ 130; 18 plates, 1 map. New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction, 1989. £22.95. (1990) (0)
June W.Allison, Word and Concept in Thucydides, in: Classical Review 49, 366-68 (1999) (0)
Antiochus I (1) (RE 21) Soter (2012) (0)
McGregor's The Athenians and their Empire (1988) (0)
Content and Outlook (2004) (0)
ed. , Greek Historiography. (1994) (0)
People, Places, Prosopography, and Politics (2004) (0)
Cercops of Miletus, epic poet, 6th cent. BCE? (2016) (0)
Callias (1), son of Hipponicus, prominent Athenian, 5th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Zeuxis (4), Seleucid viceroy (2015) (0)
Demon, fl. c. 300 BCE (2015) (0)
Review. Thucydides' Pentekontaetia and Other Essays. WK Pritchett (1997) (0)
Lycophron (2), Greek author (2016) (0)
Xenocrates (1), of Chalcedon, disciple of Plato (1) and head of the Academy, 339–314 BCE (2016) (0)
Sibylline Oracles and Other Apocalyptic Literature (2018) (0)
Hypsicrates, historian, c. 1st cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Achaemenid History (1990) (0)
Hegemony John Wickersham: Hegemony and Greek Historians . (Greek studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches.) Pp. 195. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994. $52.50 (Paper, $22.50). (1995) (0)
Metrodorus (1), of Lampsacus, thinker and pupil of Anaxagoras, 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Odium Thucydideum (1997) (0)
Phormion (1), Athenian admiral (2016) (0)
Aristobulus (2), Alexandrian Jewish author, c. 2nd half of 2nd cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Edwin Murphy: The Antiquities of Egypt: a Translation, with Notes, of Book 1 of the Library of History of Diodorus Siculus . Revised and Expanded Edition. Pp. xiv + 179; 29 plates. New Brunswick and London: Transaction, 1990. (1991) (0)
Statements of Method; Causation (2004) (0)
Antiochus IV (4) (RE 27) Theos Epiphanes (2012) (0)
Athenian Democracy (1991) (0)
[Review Article] No History without Culture (2005) (0)
Callias (4), Athenian nobleman, c. 450–370 BCE (2015) (0)
epithets, divine, Greek (2016) (0)
Peter Fraser MA, MC, FBA (1918–2007) (2008) (0)
GEORGE CAWKWELL'S CONTRIBUTION TO ANCIENT HISTORY AND TO OXFORD (1991) (0)
Thucydides and Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion (2010) (0)
SPARTANS IN THUCYDIDES (2003) (0)
Scione (2022) (0)
Heinz Kreissig: Geschichte des Hellenismus. Pp. 257; 27 text illustrations, including 5 maps; 32 plates. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1984. 11.80 M. (1987) (0)
Thucydides and Pindar: A Stylistic Comparison (2004) (0)
Steven W. Hirsch: The Friendship of the Barbarians. Xenophon and the Persian Empire . Pp. xiv + 216; 2 maps. Hanover and London: University Press of New England (for Tufts University), 1985. £25. (1988) (0)
Lycophron (1), tyrant of Pherae, c. 406–390 BCE (2016) (0)
Thucydides (2), Athenian historian, 2nd half of 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
(D.M.) Lewis Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History, ed. P.J. Rhodes. Cambridge UP, 1997 Pp. xii + 418. 0521465648. £50/$89.95. (2002) (0)
Rufus Curtius. A commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni books 3 and 4. By J. E. Atkinson. (London studies in classical philology, 4.) Amsterdam and Uithoorn: Gieben. 1980. Pp. vi + 495, 3 maps. Fl. 120. (1982) (0)
Uranius, Greek writer about Arabia (2016) (0)
Callias (6), Athenian agent and diplomat of Ptolemy (1) (2015) (0)
Rhampsinitus, Ramses (III?) (2016) (0)
Alexander (10) (RE 22) Balas (2012) (0)
Methone (1), a Greek city in Pieria (2016) (0)
Maenads, Melampous, Melicertes, Metis, Mopsus, Mythology, Oceanus, pharmakos, Philyra, Phineus, Proetus, psyche, Rites of passage, Salmoneus (1996) (0)
Diocles (7), of Peparethos, historian (2016) (0)
[Review] Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: the Limits of Political Realism / Gregory Crane (1999) (0)
Philemon (4), Greek author of Μιλησία, 183 BCE (2016) (0)
Antiochus V (5) (RE 28) Eupator (2012) (0)
Evagoras, c. 435–374/373 bce (2016) (0)
Callias (3), son of Calliades, Athenian politician, 5th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
B. Gentili, G. Cerri: History and Biography in Ancient Thought . (London Studies in Classical Philology, 20.) Pp. 119. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1988. fl. 65. (1989) (0)

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The Greek world, 479-323 BC