Professor Simon Hornblower
MA, DPhil, FBA
Senior Research Fellow since 2010
Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Oxford
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Background
- Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History, University College London (from 2006 to 2010)
- Senior Lecturer, then Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London (from 1997 to 2006)
- Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1997)
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 1971 to 1977)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1969 to 1971)
- Undergraduate (scholar) Jesus College, Cambridge (from 1967 to 1969)
Research interests
- Classical Greek historiography (esp. Herodotus and Thucydides) and the relationship between historical texts as literature and as history
- Pindar
- Lykophron’s Alexandra
Selected publications
- The Greek World 479-323 BC (4th ed., January 2011)
- Thucydidean Themes (OUP, 2010)
- Commentary on Thucydides (OUP, 3 vols., 1991–2008)
- (co-edited) Pindar’s poetry, patrons and festivals, from archaic Greece to the Roman empire (OUP, 2007)
- Thucydides and Pindar (OUP 2004)
- (co-edited) Greek Personal Names: their value as evidence (OUP for British Academy, 2000)
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Other professional memberships and roles
- Member of RAE 2008 sub-panel 59 (classics etc.) (2008)
- Foreign member, Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 1999)
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (from 1994 to 1995)
Research awards and grants
- AHRC research leave award (from 2006 to 2007)
- AHRB research leave award (from 2000 to 2001)