Simon Hornblower

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, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in "Literae Humaniores" in 1971 (BA) and a DPhil in 1978.

In 1971 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, which he held until 1977. From 1978 until 1997, he was University Lecturer in Ancient History at 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 in September 1997, where he was Senior Lecturer before being appointed Professor of Classics. In 2006 he became Chair of Ancient History, which was subsequently redesignated the Grote Professorship.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.

Teaching

At University College London he has taught many courses, including: Classical Greek City 508-336 BC, Alexander the Great and his Early Successors, Ancient Greek Religion, Greek Historiography, Greek literature, and Intermediate Greek language. He also teaches a number of MA classes and is currently supervising seven doctoral theses.

cholarship

His current focus is classical Greek historiography (especially Herodotus and Thucydides) and the relation between historical texts as literature and as history. He has published two volumes of a historical and literary commentary on Thucydides (Oxford University Press, 1991 and 1996) and the third and final volume will be published in late 2008. His latest 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 on historical, literary, archaeological and anthropological aspects of Pindar and his world.

Since 1979 he has been heavily involved with the ongoing project "Lexicon of Greek Personal Names" and in 2000 co-edited a book called "Greek Personal Names: their Value as Evidence" (Oxford University Press for the British Academy).

He co-edited the new (3rd edn, 1996) "Oxford Classical Dictionary".

External links

* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/people/hornblower/hornblower.html Homepage at University College London]
* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/news/index.htm 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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10000467, accessed 21 March 2008]