The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2016
Book
Hardback
880 pages
978-0-19-880486-4 (ISBN)
Description
This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. Authoritative, wide-ranging, and unrivalled in its accessibility, The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World is a concise and lucid survey of life in ancient Greece and Rome, spanning 776 BC - AD 180, from the first Olympic games to the death of Marcus Aurelius. An approachable, user-friendly abridgement of the highly acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary, this book offers over 2,500 A-Z entries on aspects of life in the classical world, from politics, medicine, philosophy, art, and architecture, to history, myth and religion, mathematics, and literature, with biographical entries on the important individuals - both real and mythological - of the period. Appendices include a clear and comprehensive account of money and its value in the classical world; a chronology of events across Greece
Reviews / Votes
Review from previous edition magnificent * Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph, reviewing The Oxford Classical Dictionary * scrupulously sourced intellectual meat of a texture that Socrates himself would savour * Sunday Times, reviewing The Oxford Classical Dictionary * offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks * Washington Times, reviewing the Oxford Classical Dictionary *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
2071 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-880486-4 (9780198804864)
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Person
The late John Roberts was Head of Classics at Eton College. He is the author of City of Sokrates (Routledge, 1998), a founder member of the JACT Ancient History Committee, and General Editor of the LACTOR series of translated sources for Greek and Roman history.
Content
PREFACE; NOTE TO THE READER; ABBREVIATIONS; THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD; PURCHASING POWER; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; TWO-WAY GAZETTEER OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN NAMES; PREFACE; NOTE TO THE READER; ABBREVIATIONS; THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD; PURCHASING POWER; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; TWO-WAY GAZETTEER OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN NAMES