Andrew Dalby

Biographic Data

ID502935
NAMEAndrew Dalby
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMEDalby
SIGNATUREDALBY A
AFFILIATIONSFilm Independent
ORCID0000-0003-3527-8320
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Alexander’s Last Carouse

    Open AccessAndrew DalbyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2024

    The drinking party at Medius’ in Babylon on 31 May 323 b.c ., marking the onset of Alexander’s terminal illness, is explored from contemporary and later texts. Close reading of fragments by Nicobule and Aristobulus, set beside the reticence of the court daybooks (Ephemerides) and the studied vagueness of secondary sources, clarifies in detail the sequence of events. Justin, Plutarch and the author of the Liber de morte Alexandri cast light on the…

  • Homer’s Enemies

    Andrew DalbyCHAPTERArchaic Greece2018

  • Siren Feasts

    Andrew DalbyBOOKSiren Feasts2013Cited by: 1

  • Wikipedia(s) on the language map of the world

    Open AccessAndrew DalbyARTICLEEnglish Today2007

    This article will not try to describe the whole Wikimedia galaxy. It will stick to Wikipedia in English, and that's ambitious enough. The English-language Wikipedia, by far the biggest of them, now (28th November 2006) contains 1,506,659 articles. The German Wikipedia reached 500,000 articles on 23rd November (note in passing: the English Wikipedia has added that many articles to its total in just six months), while the French Wikipedia reached t…

  • Food and Society in Classical Antiquity

    Hilary McCrae, Peter Garnsey et al.ARTICLEClassics Ireland2001

  • Dictionary of Languages

    Picus Sizhi Ding, Andrew DalbyARTICLELanguage2000

  • The vineyards of Laconia

    Open AccessAndrew DalbyARTICLEClassica - Revista Brasileira de…1999

    Uma demonstração do método pelo qual detalhes da história social da Grécia arcaica podem ser obtidos a partir de fragmentos da literatura perdida. Em um estudo de Alcman, fr. 92 Davies, o texto, os aromas de vinhos e as origens geográficas de vinhos são consideradas em sequência. A gastronomia de Alcman é colocada no contexto de outras obras de Alcman e da cultura hedonística da antiga Esparta

  • South East Asia

    Jonathan Riggs, Andrew DalbyARTICLEGeographical Journal1996

  • The Iliad , the Odyssey and their audiences

    Open AccessAndrew DalbyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1995Cited by: 2References: 9

    It has been easy to take the apparently detached viewpoint of the two early Greek epics as actually objective, a window on a ‘Heroic Age’, on a ‘Homeric society’ and its values. We used to ask whether ‘Homeric society’ belongs to the poets' own time or to some earlier one. We still ask how to characterize and explain the ways in which the ‘Homeric world’ differs from any world that we can accept as having existed: we answer with phrases such as ‘…

  • The Curriculum Vitae of Duris of Samos

    Open AccessAndrew DalbyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1991References: 4

    Duris of Samos is significant enough, among lost Hellenistic historians, for a paragraph or two to be devoted to him in most works on the history or literature of the period. For the last two centuries such paragraphs have been saying among other things that Duris went to Athens and studied under Theophrastus. But Athenaeus 128a, the source cited for this statement, does not support it unless a doubtful conjecture is admitted to the text

  • The Wedding Feast of Caranus the Macedonian by Hippolochus

    Andrew DalbyARTICLEPetits Propos Culinaires1988Cited by: 1

    Andrew Dalby, who furnished a new translation of The Banquet by Philoxenus in PPC 26, here performs the same service for another important text. Like the piece by Philoxenus, that by Hippolochus survives only in the pages of The Deipnosophists by Athenaeus. Dating back to the 3rd century BC, it seems to be the earliest surviving text which is devoted exclusively to the description of a banquet; and it has many other features of interest. This is …