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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stray, Christopher.

Series:

Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplement ; no. 28.

Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary ; no. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classicists--Great Britain.

Classicists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Cambridge Philological Society, 2020.

Summary:

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 translation by E. J. Kenney.

Contents:

Flying at dusk / Christopher Stray

Reading Jebb / Christopher Stray

The speaking page / Pat Eastering

James Adam in the arena of the South / David Robinson

Walter Headlam / Michael Silk

One of the great English worthies / Robert B. Todd

While Ridgeway lives, research can ne'er be dull / Mary Beard

Problematic Verrall / N.J. Lowe

Cambridge praelections 1906 reviewed / Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Wilamowitz's review / E.J. Kenney.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Stray, Christopher The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections Of 1906

ISBN:

9781913701345

1913701344

OCLC:

645022374