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16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford classics in the last 200 years. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge classics, and several old favourites are revisited. The book as a whole offers a wide-ranging survey of classics in …
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 Cl…
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin …
Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety …
Brill's Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering…
Classical scholarship and its history: from the Renaissance to the present : essays in h…
by Hall, Edith, Stray, Christopher, Clarke, Michael, Elsner, Jaś, Kaster, Robert A., Butterfield, David, Shuttleworth Kraus, Christina, Gibson, Roy, Briggs, Ward, Hallett, Judith P., Clackson, James, Hardwick, Lorna, Whitaker, Graham
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It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the…
"A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the ea…
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Roman Comedy. This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of 'Roman comedy', including primarily fabula palliata ('New Comedy', as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana,…
The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect and organize in one databas…
