Title & Author:

The Oxford history of the classical world / edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray.

Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Description:

vii, 882 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Greece. Greece : the history of the Archaic period / George Forrest -- Homer / Oliver Taplin -- Greek myth and Hesiod / Jasper Griffin -- Lyric and elegiac poetry / Ewen Bowie -- Early Greek philosophy / Martin West -- Greece : the history of the classical period / Simon Hornblower -- Greek drama / Peter Levi -- Greek historians / Oswyn Murray -- Life and society in classical Greece / Oswyn Murray -- Classical Greek philosophy / Julia Annas -- Greek religion / Robert Parker -- Greek art and architecture / John Boardman -- The history of the hellenistic period / Simon Price -- Hellenistic culture and literature / Robin Lane Fox -- Hellenistic philosophy and science / Jonathan Barnes -- Early Rome and Italy / Michael Crawford -- The expansion of Rome / Elizabeth Rawson -- The first Roman literature / Peter Brown -- Cicero and Rome / Miriam Griffin -- The poets of the late republic / Robin Nisbet -- Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman art / Roger Ling.
Rome. The founding of the empire / David Stockton -- The arts of government / Nicholas Purcell -- Augustan poetry and society / R.O.A.M. Lyne -- Virgil / Jasper Griffin -- Roman historians / Andrew Lintott -- The arts of prose : the early empire / Donald Russell -- Silver Latin poetry and the Latin novel / Richard Jenkyns -- Later philosophy / Anthony Meredith -- The arts of living / Roger Ling -- Roman life and society / John Matthews -- Roman art and architecture / R.J.A. Wilson -- Envoi : on taking leave of antiquity / Henry Chadwick.

Summary:

This collection of essays from thirty contributors provides a comprehensive overview of the Greco-Roman world, its history, and its social, political, artistic, and cultural achivements.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198721129
9780198721123
0192852361
9780192852366

Subject:

Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilisation ancienne.
Klassieke oudheid.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Histoire ancienne.
Civilisation antique.
Civilisation classique.
Rome Civilisation.
Rome Histoire.
Grèce Civilisation.
Classical antiquity, to 200

Form/genre:

Reference works
Ouvrages de référence.

Added entries:

Boardman, John, 1927- editor.
Griffin, Jasper, editor.
Murray, Oswyn, editor.
Boardman, John, 1927-
Griffin, Jasper.
Murray, Oswyn.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 132803
Call No.: ID:86-B7838
Status: Available