Professor Simon Hornblower FBA

Classics and Ancient History Greek Language and Literature History of Greece and the Greek World Southern Europe Greece
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2004
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Classics and Ancient History

All Souls College, Oxford Quondam Fellow

Past appointments

University College London Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History

2006 - 2010

University College London Senior Lecturer; Professor of Classics and Ancient History

1997 - 2006

Oriel College, Oxford Tutorial Fellow

1978 - 1997

University of Oxford Lecturer in Ancient History

1978 - 1997

All Souls College University of Oxford Prize Fellow

1971 - 1977

Publications

Thucydidean Themes

Published in 2011

Lykophron Alexandra:Greek text, translation, commentary, and introduction

Published in 2015

Herodotus Book V

Published in 2013

Mausolus

Published in 1982

Commentary on Thucydides (3 vols)

Published in 1991, 1996, 2008

Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

Published in 2004

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Michael Squire FBA

Ancient Greek and Roman art and archaeology; classical literature, culture and thought; visual-verbal relations; classical traditions and reception; theologies of art; cultural history of ornament; history of aesthetics

Michael Squire FBA

Dr Andrew Burnett FBA

Numismatics Greek and Roman Numismatics

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Professor William Harris FBA

Greek & Roman history, with special interests in Italy, the rise of the Roman Empire, literacy, & topics that verge on other disciplines, especially psychology, economics & environmental sciences

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