Simon Hornblower

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Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London.

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[edit] Biography

Born on 29 May 1949, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a scholar, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Classical Tripos Part 1 in 1969, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1971 (BA and hence subsequently MA) and a DPhil in 1978 with a thesis entitled Maussollos of Karia.

In 1971 he was elected to one of the most prestigious honours for a young academic at Oxford, a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, which he held until 1977. Then for two decades, from 1978 until 1997, he was University Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Oriel College, Oxford, including one year, 1994/95, in which he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He moved to University College London, where for just one year he was Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Greek and Latin and of History. In 1998 he was appointed Professor of Classics at University College London and in 2006 he was appointed to the Chair of Ancient History, which was subsequently redesignated the Grote Professorship.

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

[edit] Teaching

At University College London he has taught the following undergraduate courses in Greek history: Classical Greek City 508-336 BC, Alexander the Great and his Early Successors , Ancient Greek Religion, Greek Historiography (both in Greek and in translation), Greek literature (reading classes on Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Lysias, Andokides), and Greek language (Intermediate Greek), and was for many years co-ordinator of the Life and Death in the Ancient World course (a core course for Ancient World Studies students). He also teaches a number of MA papers and is currently supervising seven doctoral theses.

[edit] Scholarship

His current interest is classical Greek historiography (especially Herodotus and Thucydides) and the relation between historical texts as literature and as history. He has already published two volumes of a large-scale historical and literary commentary on Thucydides (Oxford University Press, 1991 and 1996) and the third and final volume, containing books 5.25-8.109, is finished and will be published in late 2008. His latest sole-authored book is Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (2004). He is also co-editor, with Professor Cathy Morgan of King's College London, Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2007), a collection of papers by experts on historical, literary, archaeological and anthropological aspects of Pindar and his world.

In addition, he is still, as he has been since 1979, heavily involved with the on-going Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and in 2000 he co-edited a book called Greek Personal Names: their Value as Evidence (Oxford University Press for the British Academy).

Finally, he co-edited the new (3rd edn, 1996) Oxford Classical Dictionary, and there are plans for a 4th edition.

[edit] Forms of address

  • Envelope: Professor Simon (or N.S.R.) Hornblower, FBA
  • Salutation: Dear Sir, Dear Professor, or Dear Professor Hornblower

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[edit] Publications

A. ) Books (single-authored unless otherwise stated)

1.) Mausolus (Oxford University Press [= OUP] 1982)

2.) The Greek World 479-323 BC (Methuen, 1983; revised edition Routledge London, 1991; 3rd edition Routledge 2002). Translated into Spanish, Italian and Modern Greek

3.) Co-editor, LACTOR: The Athenian Empire ed. 3 (1984)

4.) Thucydides (Duckworth, London, 1987, reprinted with additions 1994; modern Greek translation 2003)

5.) Commentary on Thucydides Vol. 1: Books I-III (OUP, 1991) (modern Greek translation 2006)

6.) Editor, Greek Historiography (OUP, 1994; paperback 1995)

7.) Co-editor, Ritual Finance Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (OUP, 1994)

8.) Co-editor, Cambridge Ancient History vol. 6 (1994), 2nd ed, 'The Fourth Century BC'

9.) Co-editor, Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. 3 (OUP, 1996)

10.) Commentary on Thucydides, vol. 2: Books IV-V.24 (OUP, 1996) (modern Greek translation 2006)

11.) Co-editor, Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (OUP, 1998)

12.) Co-editor, Who's Who in the Ancient World (OUP, 2000)

13.) Co-editor, Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence (OUP for the British Academy, 2000)

14.) Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (Oxford, 2004, corrected paperback 2006)

15.) Co-editor, Pindar's Poetry: Patrons, Festivals and Elite Mobility: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (Oxford, 2007), based on seminar series held in London (ICS) autumn 2002, with three additional, specially commissioned, papers.

B.) Refereed articles and chapters in books (excluding very short articles, and entries in reference works):

1.) 'Thucydides, the Panionian Festival, and the Ephesia (III 104)', Historia 31 (1982) pp. 241-245

2.) 'When was Megalopolis Founded?', BSA 85 (1990) pp. 71-77

3.) 'The Religious Dimension to the Peloponnesian War, Or, What Thucydides Does Not Tell Us', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94 (1992) pp. 179-97

4.) 'Thucydides' Use of Herodotus', in J. M. Sanders (ed.) FILOLAKWN: Lakonian Studies in Honor of Hector Catling (Athens, 1992), 141-154, reprinted with corrections in A10, pp. 122-137

5.) 'Creation and Development of Democratic Institutions in Ancient Greece', in J. Dunn (ed.) Democracy: the Unfinished Journey (Oxford, 1992) pp. 1-16

6.) chapters in Greek Historiography (1994), see A6 above, as follows: 'Introduction', pp. 1-72; ch. 5, 'Narratology and Narrative Techniques in Thucydides', pp. 131-166

7.) chapters in Cambridge Ancient History 6 (1994), see A8 above, as follows: ch. 1, 'The Sources and their Uses', pp. 1-23; ch. 3, 'Persia', pp. 45-96; ch. 8a, 'Asia Minor', pp. 209-233; ch. 18, 'Epilogue', pp. 876-881

8.) 'The Fourth-century and Hellenistic Reception of Thucydides', Journal of Hellenic Studies 115 (1995) pp. 47-65.

9.) 'David Malcolm Lewis, 1928-1994', Proceedings of the British Academy 94 (1996) pp. 557-596

10.) 'Thucydides and 'Chalcidic' Torone (IV.110.1)', Oxford Journal of Archaeology 16 (1997) pp. 177-86

11.) 'Sticks, Stones and Spartans: the Sociology of Spartan Violence' in H. van Wees (ed.) War and Violence in Ancient Greece (London, 2000), pp. 57-82

12.) 'The Old Oligarch and Thucydides: a Fourth-century Date for the Old Oligarch?', in P. Flensted-Jensen, T. H. Nielsen and L. Rubinstein (eds.), Polis and Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History Presented to M. H. Hansen (Copenhagen, 2000) pp. 363-84

13.) 'Personal Names and the Greek Historians' in Matthews/Hornblower 2000 (A13 above) pp. 129-43

14.) 'Thucydides, Xenophon and Lichas: Were the Spartans Excluded from the Olympic Games from 420-400 BC?', Phoenix 54 (2000; but published 2001) pp. 212-25

15.) 'Epic and Epiphanies: Herodotus and the New Simonides' in D. Boedeker and D. Sider (eds.) The New Simonides (New York, 2001), pp. 135-147

16.) 'East and West from Herodotus to Alexander' in V. Hartmann and B. Heuser (eds.) War Peace and World Orders in European History (London, 2001) pp. 48-61

17.) Herodotus and his Sources of Information' in Brill Companion to Herodotus ed. E. Bakker, I. de Jong and H. van Wees (Leiden, 2002), pp. 373-386

18.) 'LICAS KALOS SAMIOS', Chiron 32 (2002) (Festschrift for C. Habicht) 237-247 (paper given at Hamburg conference, May 2001)

19.) Introduction to Folio Society edition of M, I. Finley, The World of Odysseus (2002) pp. xi-xxii

20.) General introduction (volume 1 pp. xv-xxiv) and volume introductions to Folio Society editions (4 vol. boxed set, Folio History of Ancient Greece) of A. R. Burn. The Lyric Age of Greece (pp. xxv-xxviii) and Persia and the Greeks (pp. xv-xviii), S. Hornblower, The Greek World 479-323 BC (pp. xvii-xix) and F. W. Walbank, The Hellenistic World (pp. xv-xviii) (2002)

21.) 'Panionios of Chios and Hermotimus of Pedasa: Hdt. 8. 104-106' in P. Derow and R. Parker (eds.) Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (Oxford, 2003) pp. 337-57

22.) 'e[doxe tau'ta: the Army as polis in Xenophon's Anabasis' in R. Lane Fox (ed.) The Long March: Studies in Xenophon's Anabasis (Yale, 2004), 243-263

23.) 'Pindar and Chios' in A. Matthaiou (ed.) CIAKON SUMPOSION EIS MNHMHN W. G. FORREST (Athens, 2006) 173-183

24.) 'Herodotus' Influence in Antiquity' in C. Dewald and J. Marincola (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge, 2006) pp. 306-318

25.) 'Pindar and Kingship Theory' in S. Lewis (ed.) Ancient Tyranny (Edinburgh, 2006) pp. 151-163

26.) 'Thucydides and the Argives' in A. Rengakos and A. Tsakmakis (eds.) Brill Companion to Thucydides (Leiden, 2006), pp. 615-628

27.) 'Dolphins in the Sea' (Pindar, Isthmian 9 line 7): Pindar and the Aiginetans', in A15 above, pp. 287-308 (2007); also most of co-authored Introduction to A15, pp. 1-44.

28.) 'Thucydides and Plataian Perjury', in A. Sommerstein and J. Fletcher (eds.) HORKOS: the Oath in Greek Society (Bristol, 2007) pp. 138-147

29.) 'The Dorieus Episode and the Ionian Revolt (5. 42-48)' in E. Irwin and E. Greenwood (eds.) Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (Cambridge, 2007) pp. 168-178

30.) 'Warfare in Ancient Literature', in P. Sabin, H. van Wees, and M. Whitby (eds.) The Cambridge History of Ancient Warfare (2 vols., 2007), vol. 1: 'Greece, the Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome', 22-53

31.) 'Victory-language in Pindar, the Historians, and Inscriptions', in M. Paizi-Apostolopoulou, A. Rengakos, and Chr. Tsaggalis (eds.) , Games and Rewards in the Homeric Epics: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on the Odyssey, 15-19 September 2004 (2007) 331-38

32.) 'Did the Delphic Amphiktiony Play a Political Role in the Classical Period?', in Mediterranean Historical Review; 22 (2007) 39-56

C.) Forthcoming books:

1) Commentary on Thucydides vol. III, Books 5. 25 - 8. 109 (Oxford University Press) completed 2007, publication expected late 2008

2. ) Commentary on Herodotus Book 5 (CUP, 'green-and-yellow series', 2011): under contract since 2006

D.) Forthcoming articles and book-chapters:

1.) 'Klearchos at Ai Khanum' forthcoming in Proceedings of conference on Klearchos of Soloi, Cyprus, 2003.

2.) 'Greek Lyric and the Politics and Sociologies of Archaic and Classical Greek Communities' in F. Budelmann (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

3. ) 'Historiography in Cyprus', in proceedings of conference held at Nicosia, September 2005

4.) 'Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and the Writers of Classical Antiquity (esp. Thucydides)', in A. Moreno (ed.) Epitedeumata (Festschrift for O. Murray); paper delivered at conference in Oxford, September 2004

5.) 'Thucydides and the Athenian boule (Council of Five Hundred)', in Festschrift for P. J. Rhodes, ed. L. G. Mitchell (paper delivered at conference in Rhodes, Greece, April 2005)

6.) 'Pindar's Patrons' in P. Agocs and others (eds.) Epinikian; paper delivered at international conference at UCL in July 2006

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