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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
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 Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract: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.
ISBN:9781913701345