The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906 : Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall
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| Title: | The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906 : Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Christopher Stray |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Classicists--Great Britain |
| Categories: | EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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