Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

by Christopher Stray

Overview

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 classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reforms. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge Classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar Oxford products as Liddell and Scott's "Greek-English Lexicon", the "Oxford Classical Texts", and Zimmern's "Greek Commonwealth". The book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of Classics in Oxford.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780715636459
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/02/2007
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Christopher Stray, author and editor of several books on the subject, is the leading historian of English Classics.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors     vii
Preface     ix
Non-identical twins: classics at nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge   Christopher Stray     1
'A fleet of...inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the classics, 1873-1920   Isobel Hurst     14
Jude the Obscure; Oxford's classical outcasts   Edmund Richardson     28
Newman and Arnold: classics, Christianity and manliness in Tractarian Oxford   Heather Ellis     46
Walter Pater's teaching in Oxford: classics and aestheticism   Stefano Evangelista     64
Schoolmaster, don, educator: Arthur Sidgwick moves to Corpus in 1879   Christopher Collard     78
Conington's 'Roman Homer'   Anne Rogerson     94
Henry Nettleship and the beginning of modern Latin studies at Oxford   Stephen Harrison     107
'Liddell and Scott': precursors, nineteenth-century editions, and the American contributions   August A. Imholtz, Jr.     117
Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919): Oxford, Roman archaeology and Edwardian imperialism   Richard Hingley     135
What you didn't read: the unpublished Oxford Classical Texts   Graham Whitaker     154
Alfred Zimmern's The Greek Commonwealth revisited   Paul Millett     168
Eduard Fraenkel recalled   Stephanie West     203
The study of classical literature at Oxford, 1936-1988   Robin Nisbet   Donald Russell     219
Small Latin and less Greek: Oxford adjusts to changing circumstances   James Morwood     239
Bibliography     251
Index     269