Juvenal's Mayor the professor who lived on 2 [superscript] D. a day / John Henderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, John.

Series:

Supplementary volume (Cambridge Philological Society) ; no. 20.

Supplementary volume / Cambridge Philological Society ; no. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayor, John E. B. (John Eyton Bickersteth), 1825-1910.

Mayor, John E. B.

Mayor, John E. B. (John Eyton Bickersteth), 1825-1910. Juvenal.

Classicists--Great Britain--Biography.

Classicists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Cambridge Philological Society, 2020.

Summary:

A lively study of the life and times of J. E. B. Mayor, one of the towering figures of Classics in Victorian Britain, and author of a still standard commentary on Juvenal's Satires.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Frontispiece

Preface

Abbreviations

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1. Quit you like men of 1882: Mayor's Philological Society

2. Mayor's friend, the publisher. And Juvenal

3. Some fell among thieves: How did Blackwell's get it? \ Not that I 'd give it back

4. The lectures of Father Time: Not every boy can hope to become a Prof. Mayor

5. Which journal? Whose Classics?

6. Becoming a back number

7. Der beste Commentar

8. Yesterday's radical

9. Water babies and history men

10. Musical chairs: Kennedy's Latin prima donnas

11. Rui/nning the Library: the man from UCL

12. Feed the world

13. Addenda.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Henderson, John Juvenal's Mayor

ISBN:

9781913701260

1913701263

OCLC:

644123311