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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 [[Master of Arts|MA]] papers and is currently supervising seven doctoral theses. |
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Revision as of 18:31, 23 July 2008
Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London.
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.
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.
External links
- Homepage at University College London
- Announcement of appointment for established Chair of Ancient History
- ‘HORNBLOWER, Prof. Simon’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 21 March 2008