Simon Hornblower
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 537010 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon Hornblower |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | Hornblower |
| FIRMA | HORNBLOWER S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 98 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 268 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 14 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1920 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Hannibal and Scipio
The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage's commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio. The two men were born about a decade apart but died in the same year, 183, following brilliant but ultimately unhappy careers. In this absorbing joint biography, celebrated historian Simon Hornblower reveals how the trajectory of each general illuminate…
Oxford World's Classics
"Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably written c. 190, when Rome had defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians and was poised to humble the Seleukid king Antiochos III. The poem is an ingeniously constructed masterpiece, a generic mix with elements of tragedy, epic, and history. Priam's beautiful daughter, the prophetic Kassandra, foresees her…
Rhodes
Rhodes in Lykophron is a puzzle. The poet believes that Rhodians from the east Aegean tried to settle in the Croton region of south Italy after the Trojan war, and implies that they failed. But there is little or no evidence from archaeology, inscriptions or coins for a Rhodian presence in Italy as opposed to Sicily. An explanation is offered for this anomalous tradition. The Romans did successfully colonize Croton in 194 BC, at a time when they …
Hellenistic Tragedy and Satyr-Drama; Lycophron’s Alexandra
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The Hellenistic Kingdoms
Political and literary considerations alike suggest that the Alexandra dates from about 190 BC and that its closing sections celebrate the victory of the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus over Philip V of Macedon at the battle of Kynoskephalai in 197 BC. Lykophron’s world is essentially the Mediterranean and Black Sea zones. It ranges from Spain across to Phoenicia. All the kingdoms which succeeded Alexander the Great are featured in the po…
Campania, Latium, and Rome
Campania receives very full treatment by Kassandra. Naples is especially prominent, and the relevant section ends at the poem’s exact middle point. This is a deliberate emphasizing device: Naples was of maritime importance in the Roman war against Hannibal and earlier. Hannibal’s visit to the oracle of the dead at Campanian Aornos is hinted at by Kassandra. The important narrative about Aineias and the twins Romulus and Remus is examined for topi…
Culture, Religion, and Myths of Identity in the Alexandra
Hellenistic incubation (temple medicine, healing by dreams) is described authentically in the Alexandra . The excursus about the re-burying of Hektor’s bones at Boiotian Thebes (a cult of relics) is grounded in Hellenistic events. The excursus about the tribute of the Lokrian Maidens has strongly Hellenistic features and the ritual is also attested by a third-century bc inscription. Divine epithets show the poet’s acquaintance with both Greek and…
Conclusion
The Alexandra is a strongly political poem. Other candidates for the description are considered. The 190s BC are argued to be a turning-point in Roman history, especially in the sphere of colonizing policy. The poem reflects this, especially in connection with Croton (citizen colony sent out in 194). The intended audience/readership of the poem is discussed. It is suggested that the poet was a bilingual citizen of south Italy and was excited at t…
Sibylline Oracles and Other Apocalyptic Literature
The pseudo-prophetic Alexandra is one of many such productions of the period. There are similarities with the Third Sibylline Oracle in particular. Also with stories in Phlegon of Tralles, the Book of Daniel, and the Oracle of the Potter. But these are merely stylistic and superficial parallels. Messianism and anti-Roman venom are absent from Lykophron. Polybius (not a Rome-hater) is the best analogy.
Thucydides and the Athenian Boulē (Council of Five Hundred)
The Returning Hero
This interdisciplinary book, which takes its origin from an international conference held in Oxford, brings together experts in ancient Greek (and Roman) history, literature, archaeology, and religion. It is about ancient Greek returns and returning, chiefly—but by no means only—of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most ‘marked’, ancient Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos , plural nostoi , as in the English derivative ‘n…
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
This book is an original, accessibly written, contribution to Roman and Hellenistic history. Its subject is a long (1474-line) ancient Greek poem, Lykophron’s Alexandra , probably written about 190 BC. The Trojan Kassandra foretells the conflicts between Europe and Asia from the Trojan Wars to the establishment of Roman ascendancy over the Greek world in the poet’s own time, including the founding of new cities by returning Greeks through the Med…
Herodotus
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 Herodot…
Lykophron: Alexandra (Revised Edition)
The 'Alexandra' attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the hellenistic period (most likely the early second century BC). 0Most of the poem purports to be a prophecy by the mythical Trojan princess, Kassandra, the most beautiful of the daughters of King Priam, and her prophecy ranges from the Trojan War to the historical Roman conquest …
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is part of a major reference publishing initiative from Oxford University Press to provide current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy research, read in 30 minutes or less, that better serves the changing needs of university-level digital research by acting as both a living repository and a timeless legacy. It evolves as the discipline evolves, constantly reflecting and inspiring new debates within the academic community. …
Agariste’s Suitors
This chapter examines Herodotus's account of the wooing of Agariste of Sikyon, which is part of his narrative of the battle of Marathon, to highlight two types of traditional cultural practice in ancient Greece: athletics and wedding competitions. It shows how the narrative flavour of Herodotus's account, like the pattern that emerges from a detailed look at the suitors' origins, may cast the passage in a new light. It thus reveals a pattern of A…
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Over 700 entriesFor over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for so many aspects of our lives—from culture, literature, drama, cinema, and television to society, education, and politics. Many of the roots of the way life is lived in the West today can be traced to the ancient civilizations, not only in politics, law, technology, philosophy, and science, but a…
Lykophron and Epigraphy
The subject of this paper is a striking and unavoidable feature of the Alexandra : Lykophron's habit of referring to single gods not by their usual names, but by multiple lists of epithets piled up in asyndeton. This phenomenon first occurs early in the 1474-line poem, and this occurrence will serve as an illustration. At 152-3, Demeter has five descriptors in a row: Ἐνναία ποτὲ | Ἕρκυνν' Ἐρινὺς Θουρία Ξιφηφόρος, 'Ennaian ... Herkynna, Erinys, Th…
Did the Delphic Amphiktiony Play a Political Role in the Classical Period?
There can be few more attractive candidates for the modern label &s;network&s; than the ancient Delphic amphiktiony. 1 It was an organization of geographically distinct communities, some of them distant; a network with two hubs, Delphi and Anthela. It met twice a year, spring and autumn, to transact essentially religious business. I shall not set out uncontested facts or events. I shall instead concentrate on the two words &s;essentially religiou…
Herodotus
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 …
What happened later to the families of Pindaric patrons – and to epinician poetry?
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Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
The Greek World 479-323 BC
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 develop…
Thucydides and the Argives
Sticks, Stones, and Spartans
The fourth-century and Hellenistic reception of Thucydides
How well known was Thucydides' history in the fourth century BC and the hellenistic period? Gomme, with an eye on Polybius, once wrote of the ‘nearly complete silence about Thucydides in what remains to us of ancient writers before the age of Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus’. This is startling at first and has to my knowledge led to the misconception that Thucydides virtually disappeared after his own time. Gomme was however referring merel…
Thucydides and Pindar
This book discusses a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. It 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 the book explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically or…
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued …
When Was Megalopolis Founded
Pausanias' date (371) for the foundation/synoikism of the federal Arkadian capital, Megalopolis, is preferable to Diodorus' (368). But the process was spread over several years, beginning soon after the Battle of Leuktra. Diodorus' source here was not Ephorus but the ‘chronographic source’ from which Diodorus derived other material about city-foundations, synoikisms etc. The ‘battle’, after which Diodorus says the city was founded, may in the chr…
Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World
This book is an original, accessibly written, contribution to Roman and Hellenistic history. Its subject is a long (1474-line) ancient Greek poem, Lykophron’s Alexandra , probably written about 190 BC. The Trojan Kassandra foretells the conflicts between Europe and Asia from the Trojan Wars to the establishment of Roman ascendancy over the Greek world in the poet’s own time, including the founding of new cities by returning Greeks through the Med…
Ombres de Thucydide
Durant toute l’Antiquité, l’historien Thucydide a constitué une référence obligée et un modèle qui a inspiré nombre de continuateurs et d’imitateurs, en milieu grec et à Rome, que ce soit pour sa méthode ou pour les caractéristiques formelles de son œuvre. Cet engouement, qui a perduré jusqu’au Moyen Âge byzantin et ne s’est pas démenti à la Renaissance, redouble à partir du xviiie siècle, au moment où l’histoire se construit comme « science » : …
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 1
Thucydidean Themes
This book is a collection of seventeen chapters on the great fifth-century bc Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three main parts (general; discussions of particular sections of the History; Thucydides' reception). Although most have previously appeared in print, many have been rewritten for this book. All are provided with prefatory material …
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 3
The Greek World 479-323 BC
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 develop…
Lykophron and Epigraphy
The subject of this paper is a striking and unavoidable feature of the Alexandra : Lykophron's habit of referring to single gods not by their usual names, but by multiple lists of epithets piled up in asyndeton. This phenomenon first occurs early in the 1474-line poem, and this occurrence will serve as an illustration. At 152-3, Demeter has five descriptors in a row: Ἐνναία ποτὲ | Ἕρκυνν' Ἐρινὺς Θουρία Ξιφηφόρος, 'Ennaian ... Herkynna, Erinys, Th…
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Over 700 entriesFor over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for so many aspects of our lives—from culture, literature, drama, cinema, and television to society, education, and politics. Many of the roots of the way life is lived in the West today can be traced to the ancient civilizations, not only in politics, law, technology, philosophy, and science, but a…
Did the Delphic Amphiktiony Play a Political Role in the Classical Period
This paper seeks, against recent work, to re-assert the occasional political importance of the Delphic amphiktiony in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, without denying the primarily religious function of that organization. The paper deals with the centuries in reverse chronological order, because the fourth is better documented. In particular, it is argued that there is solid epigraphic evidence, from Athens as well as Delphi, for Theban use of …
No History Without Culture
Marshall Sahlins, Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004, 328 pp. During the first Gulf War, visitors to Colin Powell's office could not fail to notice a quote from Thucydides lodged beneath the glass covering of his desk. It read: "Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most." When it recently emerged that this passage does not occur in Thuc…
Thucydides, Xenophon, and Lichas
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 2
A reaction to gunter's look at Hekatomnid patronage from Labraunda
L'article est une réponse à Ann Gunter, REA 87 (1985) 113-124, et montre que (I) contrairement à ce qu'allègue Gunter, l'auteur de Mausolus (Oxford, 1982) reconnaît pleinement que l'activité de la dynastie hécatomnide n'a pas tendu, d'une façon simple, vers l'hellénisation. Par exemple, la "Carianisation" est aussi en évidence. (II) Que la possibilité que les Perses achéménides ont exercé une influence sur les Hécatomnides est admise dans Mausolu…
Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology
In Identity and Civic Ideology, Alan Boegehold and Adele Scafuro bring together a group of scholars who explore the nature and meaning of Athenian citizenship. Departing from the narrow perspective of constitutional historians and embracing sociological concerns as well, the range of topics attests to a broad vision of the concepts of citizenship and civic ideology in a society in which the boundary between public and private, sacred and secular,…
Thucydides and ‘Chalkidic’ Torone (IV.110.1)
This article is a reply to the Thucydidean part of J.K. Papadopoulos in OJA 15 (1996) 151–81 and is concerned with the meaning of ‘Chalkidic Torone’ at Thucydides IV.110.1 (and of ‘Chalkidic Olynthos’ at IV.123). Various meanings, canvassed in previous scholarship, are considered. Sense (1) is geographical, ‘Torone in Chalkidike’ sense (2) is political, ‘Torone the member of the Chalkidic State or League’. Both these are rejected in favour of som…
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. I
Warfare in ancient literature
Wars and fighting are very prominent in the literature of classical antiquity. This chapter looks at literary sources about war and fighting and the problems of using them. It concentrates on three types of fighter: archers, women, slaves. The chapter deals with the interaction between military and non-military institutions: the relationship between the state and organized violence, and attitudes to that relationship as they are displayed in the …
The Cambridge Ancient History
The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part I. Volume III Part III explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. This was the great period of expansion and colonization which saw the establishment of Greek city-states from the Western Mediterranean to the Black Sea. This vol…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access SIMON HORNBLOWER SIMON HORNBLOWER Oriel CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 403, April 1987, Page 459, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.403.459 Published: 01 April 1987
McGregor's The Athenians and their Empire
Shorter Notices
Thucydides
A reaction to gunter's look at Hekatomnid patronage from Labraunda
L'article est une réponse à Ann Gunter, REA 87 (1985) 113-124, et montre que (I) contrairement à ce qu'allègue Gunter, l'auteur de Mausolus (Oxford, 1982) reconnaît pleinement que l'activité de la dynastie hécatomnide n'a pas tendu, d'une façon simple, vers l'hellénisation. Par exemple, la "Carianisation" est aussi en évidence. (II) Que la possibilité que les Perses achéménides ont exercé une influence sur les Hécatomnides est admise dans Mausolu…
When Was Megalopolis Founded
Pausanias' date (371) for the foundation/synoikism of the federal Arkadian capital, Megalopolis, is preferable to Diodorus' (368). But the process was spread over several years, beginning soon after the Battle of Leuktra. Diodorus' source here was not Ephorus but the ‘chronographic source’ from which Diodorus derived other material about city-foundations, synoikisms etc. The ‘battle’, after which Diodorus says the city was founded, may in the chr…
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 1
George Cawkwell's Contribution to Ancient History and to Oxford
GEORGE CAWKWELL'S CONTRIBUTION TO ANCIENT HISTORY AND TO OXFORD Get access SIMON HORNBLOWER SIMON HORNBLOWER Oriel College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 37, Issue Supplement_58, January 1991, Pages 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1991.tb02201.x Published: 22 February 2011
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume III Part II carries on the history of the Near East from the close of Volume III Part I and covers roughly the same chronological period as Volume III Part III. During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal strife. Assyrian might was reflected in the imposing palaces, libraries and sculpt…
A Commentary on Thucydides
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. I
Ritual, Finance, Politics
This book is a celebration of two thousand five hundred years of democracy. At the same time it is a collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The book brings together contributions from twenty two leading scholars from Britain, Continental Europe, Israel, and America; its central themes are ritual (both in the religious and extended anthropological sense); fi…
Sources and their uses
No guide comparable to Thucydides exists for the fourth century. This means that we have no firm framework for political and military events, and this lack is a serious obstacle to one sort of knowledge. Thucydides’ mind, however, was limited as well as powerful, or perhaps we should say its limits were the price of its power; and in the fourth century certain types of history which he had treated only selectively, particularly social, economic a…
Epilogue
In the three quarters of a century between Lysander of Sparta and Alexander the Great – the period covered by this volume – the classical world had expanded and changed spectacularly, above all by the overthrow of the Achaemenid empire. The aim of this Epilogue is to put that, the biggest single change, into historical context. Much of the present volume may seem to have been, in one way or another, preparation for Alexander the Great, who has hi…
Persia
INTRODUCTION Problems of method and evidence make it particularly difficult to write a history of Persia in the fourth century B.C., or rather, an account of Persia which will fit satisfactorily into a general history of a century whose study has traditionally been dominated by Greek evidence, or evidence perceived as Greek. There are two main, related, difficulties. The first is the risk of ‘hellenocentricity’ – that is, the adoption of an undul…
Ritual, finance, politics
This book is a celebration of two thousand five hundred years of democracy. At the same time it is a collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The book brings together contributions from twenty-two leading scholars from Britain. Continental Europe, Israel, and North America; its central themes are ritual (both in the religious and extended anthropological sens…
Greek historiography
The ancient Greek achievement in the writing of history set the standard for all time. But the nature of that achievement looks increasingly problematic in the light of recent work on such topics as literacy, orality, rhetoric, narrative technique, and the invention of tradition. This book contributes to the understanding of both the achievement and the problems of Greek historiography by gathering the papers delivered by various distinguished sc…
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued …
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access SIMON HORNBLOWER SIMON HORNBLOWER Oriel CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 432, June 1994, Pages 675–676, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.432.675 Published: 01 June 1994
A Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. 2
The Cambridge Ancient History VI
Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology
In Identity and Civic Ideology, Alan Boegehold and Adele Scafuro bring together a group of scholars who explore the nature and meaning of Athenian citizenship. Departing from the narrow perspective of constitutional historians and embracing sociological concerns as well, the range of topics attests to a broad vision of the concepts of citizenship and civic ideology in a society in which the boundary between public and private, sacred and secular,…
Thucydides and ‘Chalkidic’ Torone (IV.110.1)
This article is a reply to the Thucydidean part of J.K. Papadopoulos in OJA 15 (1996) 151–81 and is concerned with the meaning of ‘Chalkidic Torone’ at Thucydides IV.110.1 (and of ‘Chalkidic Olynthos’ at IV.123). Various meanings, canvassed in previous scholarship, are considered. Sense (1) is geographical, ‘Torone in Chalkidike’ sense (2) is political, ‘Torone the member of the Chalkidic State or League’. Both these are rejected in favour of som…
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