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  • Augustus De Morgan, Polymath

    New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy

    by Karen Attar ...
    When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been ... Read more

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  • Oxford Classics

    Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

    by Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge

    Curriculum, Culture and Community

    Edited by Christopher Stray ...
    Series Book 24 - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
    Eight essays in which Classicists examine the history of their own subject as taught and practised at Cambridge University in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the foundations were laid for the modern contours of the subject. ... Read more

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  • The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

    Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall

    Edited by Christopher Stray ...
    Series Book 28 - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
    This volume studies Sir Richard Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge until his death in 1905, and the public competition ("praelections") in which five scholars - James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall - competed to become his successor. Eight essays are followed by Wilamowitz's entertaining review of the five candidates' orations, with a new ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Classical Receptions

    Edited by Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray ...
    Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Marginal Comment

    A Memoir Revisited

    by Sir K. J. Dover, Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography – ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Scholarship and Controversy

    Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

    Edited by Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

    John Wright’s Alma Mater

    Edited by Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    John Wright's Alma Mater was the first book-length student memoir to be published in Britain. Yet this trailblazing and revealing work has never been reprinted since its appearance in 1827. Full of fascinating detail about college life, it discusses teaching, examinations and student socialising, including sport, hunting and recourse to prostitutes. A remarkable story of success and failure, it ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • Rediscovering E. R. Dodds

    Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

    Edited by Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling, Stephen Harrison ...
    Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Liddell and Scott

    The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek

    Edited by Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz ...
    The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time, ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • A.E. Housman

    Classical Scholar

    by David Butterfield, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Remaking the Classics

    Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

    by Amanda Wrigley, Elizabeth Vandiver, Leanne Hunnings, Ruth Hazel, Stephen Harrison, Professor Lorna Hardwick, Dr. Christopher Stray, Deborah Roberts, Professor Sheila Murnaghan ...
    This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for ... Read more

    $161.99 USD