The Oxford Classical Dictionary: The Ultimate Reference Work on the Classical World - Hardcover

9780195216936: The Oxford Classical Dictionary: The Ultimate Reference Work on the Classical World

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195216938 ISBN 13: 9780195216936

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2001

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Praised by playwright Arthur Miller as "a delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture" and by Booklist as "the single most heavily used book on classical studies," The Oxford Classical Dictionary is without doubt the definitive one-volume resource on ancient Greece and Rome. Now this redoubtable classic is available in electronic form on CD-ROM.
Here are over six thousand A to Z entries, ranging from long articles to biographies to brief identifications. Readers can find information on virtually any aspect of the classical world--athletics, bee-keeping, botany, magic, Roman law, philosophy, religious rites, postal service, slavery, navigation, and the reckoning of time. And with the OCD on CD-ROM, readers can find this information in seconds.
Both the thousand-page volume and the CD-ROM are available as a package, with the CD included in a sleeve in the inside back cover of the book. Together they make an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Greece or Rome.

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Review

- "A delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture, our arts, sciences, and politics... A browser's paradise." - "Offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks...offers a cornucopia of accurate and succinct knowledge that would be hard to equal." UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "Review from previous edition this magnificent book" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "a classic...a highly readable and browseable delight...should be in every reference collection" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "a delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture...a browser's paradise, and I would think a researcher's quick rescuer" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "the third edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary should be saluted" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "a remarkable feat...Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth deserve a round of applause for the spread, exactness and range of this massive overhaul" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks...offers a cornucopia of accurate and succinct knowledge that would be hard to equal" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "the ultimate useful book" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "an astonishing book" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "the book's substance speaks for itself: 364 distinguished scholars contribute scrupulously sourced intellectual meat of a texture that Socrates himself would savour" UNEDITED UK REVIEW: "For classical scholars, the Oxford Classical Dictionary is what Wisden is for cricket fans: the one indispensable reference book...this book is more than a crossword-filler's vade mecum. In the sense of our collective intellectual domestication, it is a household object." "A masterpiece of classical scholarship and research.... The tremendous resources it contains could be very helpful for adult Sunday School teachers, pastors and others to help liven up lessons with accurate historical, archaeological, and other interesting information that is not readily available in most books and commentaries."--Books in Review "The thoroughly revised third edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary is a splendid work of reference. Besides traditional topics in classics, its interdisciplinary approach offers new or greatly expanded coverage of formerly slighted subjects....Essential."--Choice

About the Author

Simon Hornblower is Fellow and Tutor at Oriel College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Ancient History. Antony Spawforth is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Greek Archaeology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and also Curator of the Shefton Museum there.

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