Talk:Simon Hornblower

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[edit] Question about authorship of article

Who in God's name wrote this entry? The panegyrical tone is hardly justified. The commentary, far from being "magesterial", is decidedly mediocre and frequently wrong. "Lucidity" would not be word of choice for his style. This looks like it's been taken straight off the back of a book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.131.27 (talk) 21:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement and further improvement needed

Somebody has made a big improvement to this article. Well done. The only thing that concerns me is that it is quite shamelessly lifted from Professor Hornblower's homepage at UCL. I have tried to make it look a little more Wikipedia-style and have tried to put in a bit more biographical information. Remember that the general reader is just as likely to want to know where he went to school and what academic posts he has held as what his contribution to scholarship has been. Ideally we could add where he went to prep school, whether he was a scholar at Eton, his Oxford college, anything he did apart from teaching at Oriel, and any other interests he may have. He isn't in my out of date Debrett's People of Today but I'll try to get round to looking him up in a current edn of Who's Who.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 17:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC)