Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. Born in 1949, he was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a DPhil in 1978.
In 1971 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, which he held until 1977. From 1978 until 1997, he was University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Oriel College, Oxford, including one year, 1994/95, in which he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He moved to University College London in September 1997, where he was Senior Lecturer before being appointed Professor of Classics, then Professor of Ancient History in 2006.
Books in order of publication:
Mausolus, Clarendon Press – 1982
The Greek world, 479-323 BC, London – 1983
The Athenian empire, London Association of Classical Teachers – 1984
Thucydides, Johns Hopkins University Press – 1987
Greek historiography, Clarendon Press – 1994
The Oxford classical dictionary, Oxford – 1996
Who’s who in the classical world, Oxford University Press – 2000
The Folio history of Ancient Greece, Folio Society – 2002
Thucydides and Pindar: historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry, Oxford – 2004
Pindar’s poetry, patrons, and festivals: from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, Oxford – 2007
Thucydidean Themes, Oxford – 2010
Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives, Cambridge University Press
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