Over 2,500 entries cover terms, places, and personalities significant in the study of ancient Greece and Rome. - (Baker & Taylor)
This abridgment of the 1996 third edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary , the first in which the Middle East, Jews, and women make a significant appearance, is designed to be accessible, portable, and affordable to students, teachers, and general readers. It focuses on Greek Archaic and Classical periods with some attention to the Hellenist period, and on Rome of the later republic starting with the First Punic War and early empire to the death of Marcus Aurelius. Entries have been selected and simplified, bibliographies removed, technical terms explained, Greek transliterated, and new appendices added on money and ancient-to-modern place names. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News)
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World is an abridgement of the magisterial Oxford Classical Dictionary , condensing a third of its contents into 850 pages and costing less than a third of its price. The result is an up-to-date, authoritative but more approachable and affordable reference. - (David Brown Book Co)
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World is an abridgement of the magisterial Oxford Classical Dictionary , condensing a third of its contents into 850 pages and costing less than a third of its price. The result is an up-to-date, authoritative but more approachable and affordable reference. Inevitably there are omissions but the 2,500 entries aim `to bring the essence of its parent Dictionary to students, teachers, and the general reader in an accessible, portable, and affordable format'. It narrows its focus to key periods and geographical regions and includes a chronology, a list of key ancient authors and maps. - (David Brown Book Co)
Authoritative, wide-ranging, and unrivalled in its accessibility, The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World is a concise and lucid survey of life in ancient Greece and Rome, spanning 776 BC - AD 180, from the first Olympic games to the death of Marcus Aurelius. An approachable, user-friendly abridgement of the highly acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary, this book offers over 2,500 A-Z entries on aspects of life in the classical world, from politics, medicine, philosophy, art, and architecture, to history, myth and religion, mathematics, and literature, with biographical entries on the important individuals - both real and mythological - of the period.
Appendices include a clear and comprehensive account of money and its value in the classical world; a chronology of events across Greece and the east and Rome and the west; maps; and a two-way quick-reference gazetteer.
This invaluable resource for students and teachers of classics and classical civilization is affordable and quick and easy to use, as well as being a fascinating guide for anyone interested in learning more about the foundations of Western culture. - (Oxford University Press)
An approachable, user-friendly abridgement of the highly acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary, this book offers over 2,500 A-Z entries on aspects of life in the classical world, from politics, medicine, philosophy, art, and architecture, to history, myth and religion, mathematics, and literature, with biographical entries on the important individuals-- both real and mythological--of the period. - (Oxford University Press)
J. W. Roberts is the former Head of Classics at Eton College. He is the author of City of Sokrates (Routledge, 1998), a founder member of the JACT Ancient History Committee, and General Editor of the LACTOR series of translated sources for Greek and Roman history. - (Oxford University Press)