This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. 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
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
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Table of Contents
PREFACE; NOTE TO THE READER; ABBREVIATIONS; THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD; PURCHASING POWER; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; TWO-WAY GAZETTEER OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN NAMES; PREFACE; NOTE TO THE READER; ABBREVIATIONS; THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD; PURCHASING POWER; CHRONOLOGY; MAPS; TWO-WAY GAZETTEER OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN NAMES
Author Description
The late John Roberts was 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.