BooksDirect

Description - The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World by John Roberts

This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. Authoritative, wide-ranging, and unrivalled in its accessibility, The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World is a concise and lucid survey of life in ancient Greece and Rome, spanning 776 BC - AD 180, from the first Olympic games to the death of Marcus
Aurelius. An approachable, user-friendly abridgement of the highly acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary, this book offers over 2,500 A-Z entries on aspects of life in the classical world, from politics,
medicine, philosophy, art, and architecture, to history, myth and religion, mathematics, and literature, with biographical entries on the important individuals - both real and mythological - of the period. Appendices include a clear and comprehensive account of money and its value in the classical world; a chronology of events across Greece

Buy The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World by John Roberts from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.

A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Contemporary Left Wing Activism Vol 1
Hardback , Dec '18
RRP: $284.00 $281.16
Digital Publics
Hardback , Nov '14
RRP: $305.00 $301.95
Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde
Paperback , Aug '15
20% OFF!
RRP: $39.99 $31.99
Spqr I: The Kings Gambit
Paperback , Aug '01
RRP: $55.69 $50.12
The Necessity of Errors
Paperback , Oct '11
RRP: $92.72 $83.44
Capitalism and the Limits of Desire
Hardback , Sep '21
RRP: $213.79 $192.41