The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Esther Eidinow, Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization

Esther Eidinow, Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth

867 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction classics history reference challenging informative slow-paced
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What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For ...

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