Who's who in the classical world
By: edited by Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth
Contributors: Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Oxford]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Classical dictionaries -- Databases; Classical biography -- Dictionaries; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D. -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Rome -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Genres: Databases; Dictionaries; Biography
Other titles: Oxford reference online
Description: This searchable database is a dictionary of ancient biography, covering Greek and Roman history and politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art. Shorter entries provide lucid factual accounts, while the longer entries are short essays covering major historical and cultural themes in antiquity, centred round individuals as varied as Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, Alexander the Great, and Augustus
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