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  • Augustus De Morgan, Polymath

    New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Oxford Classics

    Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $210.99 CAD

  • The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

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

    Modifié par Christopher Stray ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge

    Curriculum, Culture and Community

    Modifié par Christopher Stray ...
    Collections Livre 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. ... En savoir plus

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  • Marginal Comment

    A Memoir Revisited

    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 – ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Scholarship and Controversy

    Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

    John Wright’s Alma Mater

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Rediscovering E. R. Dodds

    Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD

  • Liddell and Scott

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

    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, ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

  • A.E. Housman

    Classical Scholar

    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Remaking the Classics

    Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $210.99 CAD

  • The Drunken Duchess of Vassar

    Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar

    par Barbara McManus ...
    In this biography, Barbara McManus recovers the intriguing life story of Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866–1946), Professor of Greek at Vassar College and the first woman classicist to focus her scholarship on the lives of ancient Greco-Roman women. Fondly known as “the Drunken Duchess,” although she never drank alcohol, Macurdy came from a poor family with no social, economic, or educational advantages ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD