A. D. Momigliano
Overview page. Subjects: classical studies.
(1908–1987), Italian historian. Arnaldo Dante Momigliano was the prototype of the European intellectual. Born in the small town of Caraglio, near Cuneo in the Piedmont region of Italy, he became...
A (Nearly) Perfect Symbiosis?
in Athens and the Cyclades
October 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: classical history. 21128 words.
This chapter covers the end of the Social War to the loss of Athenian control over Delos near the end of the fourth century. Although the most powerful allies of Athens had left the Second Athenian...
“A Pure World of Signs”: Language and Empire
in Cosmopolis
March 2011; published online May 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: classical philosophy. 21029 words.
This chapter examines how early imperial intellectuals thought about Atticism and how the early imperial elite used language and in particular literary Atticism to create a model of the unity of the null...
A. S. Byatt
in Sibylline Sisters
September 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 7114 words.
A. S. Byatt's work has always been densely intertextual, and has always reflected the impossibility of separating artistic nourishment from lived experience. Her writing draws heavily upon writers...
A′ccius, Lucius (170–c.86 bc)
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical literature. 277 words.
Latin poet and literary scholar, from Picenum in Umbria. He was a younger contemporary of the tragedian *Pacuvius and the
Ab Urbe Condita: Roman History on the Shield of Aeneas
in Citizens of Discord
July 2010; published online September 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 5919 words.
This chapter offers a reading of the shield of Aeneas that shows civil war to be disturbingly present in an artefact announced as a history of Rome's triumphs: civil war fights for space with the...
abacus
in The Oxford Classical Dictionary
January 2005; published online January 2005.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical studies. 98 words.
(ἄβαξ, ἀβάκιον), a counting-board, the usual aid to reckoning in antiquity. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans alike used a board
abacus
in The Oxford Classical Dictionary
January 2012; published online January 2012.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical studies. 101 words.
a counting-board, the usual aid to reckoning in antiquity. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans alike used a board with vertical
Abaris
Overview page. Subjects: classical studies — religion.
Legendary devotee of Apollo from the far north, a shamanistic missionary and saviour-figure like Aristeas whom Pindar (fr. 270 B. Snell and H. Maehler) associated with the time of Croesus—perhaps ...
Abaris
in The Oxford Classical Dictionary
January 2005; published online January 2005.
Reference Entry. Subjects: classical studies. 141 words.
legendary devotee of Apollo from the far north, a shamanistic missionary and saviour-figure like Aristeas whom Pindar (fr. 270 B.