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 hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. Greats (Literae Humaniores) is the most celebrated class.

Originally published: London : Duckworth, 2007.

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1. Non-identical twins: classics at nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge; 2. 'A fleet of ... inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the classics, 1873-1920; 3. Jude the Obscure: Oxford's classical outcasts; 4. Newman and Arnold: classics, Christianity and manliness in Tractarian Oxford; 5. Walter Pater's teaching in Oxford: classics and aestheticism; 6. Schoolmaster, don, educator: Arthur Sidgwick moves to Corpus in 1879; 7. Conington's 'Roman Homer'; 8. Henry Nettleship and the beginning of modern Latin studies at Oxford

9. 'Liddell and Scott': precursors, nineteenth-century editions, and the American contributions10. Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919): Oxford, Roman archaeology and Edwardian imperialism; 11. What you didn't read: the unpublished Oxford Classical Texts; 12. Alfred Zimmern's The Greek Commonwealth revisited; 13. Eduard Fraenkel recalled; 14. The study of classical literature at Oxford, 1936-1988; 15. Small Latin and less Greek: Oxford adjusts to changing circumstances; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z