Lykophron's Alexandra, Rome, and the Hellenistic World

ISBN-13: 9780198723684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Simon Hornblower

Opis

The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a notoriously difficult poem but one that sheds crucial light on Greek religion, foundation myths, and myths of colonial identity. This book asserts its importance as a strongly political and historical document, and argues that the probable decade of its composition was a turning-point in Roman history.

Recenzje

It is his considerable achievement here to have justified those propositions — of course, myth and history mingle and have to be painstakingly disentangled. It will now be incumbent upon scholars to recognise and build on what a remarkable historian has achieved here.

O autorze

Simon Hornblower was most recently a Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies at All Souls College, Oxford, until his retirement in 2016. Earlier in his career he was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College from 1971 until 1977 before becoming Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History at Oriel College and University CUF Lecturer. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Classics and Professor of Ancient History at UCL, where he remained until 2010 (from 2006 as Grote Professor of Ancient History). He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2004.