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Item Number: 117648
Title: The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Fourth Edition
Author: Hornblower, Simon ; Antony Spawforth ; Esther Eidinow (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780199545568
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 27cm., hardcover, 1792pp. Summary: The most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive one-volume dictionary in the field of classics ; Established reference work covering all aspects of the classical era; now revised and updated to incorporate the very latest research and developments ; Entries new to the fourth edition include Presocratic philosophy, Jewish art, Carian language, emotions, gender, personification, and theatricality ; Broad coverage and inclusion of anthropology and reception as two new focus areas, with entries on dance reception, film, opera, and creolization, kinship, and materiality ; International approach - entries written by a team of renowned classics scholars from all around the world ; Existing entries have been thoroughly revised and updated, among them Archimedes, conversion, Lucian, Aristotle, and translation ; End-of-entry further reading updated throughout, providing a wealth of information on reliable resources ; Numerous new entries such as Andania, Latin anthologies, Jewish art, sacred and cultic books, emotions, gender, Hellenistic philosophy, literary theory and the classics, and many more ; Two new focus areas have been added to this edition: reception (including dance reception, film, and opera) and anthropology (such as ancient perception of colour, kinship, and materiality).

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