Classical Scholarship and Its History

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Classical Scholarship and Its History

From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray

Edited by: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pelling

Volume 1 in the series Trends in Classics – Scholarship in the Making

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719215

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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 book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally changed the way the history of British classics and its study is viewed.

A generation ago the history of classical scholarship still consisted largely of accounts of particular scholars and groups of scholars written by other scholars from a broadly biographical and ‘heroic individual’ perspective. In these works scholars often sought to find their own place in the great tradition, choosing to praise or blame those whose work they admired or deprecated, and to identify with particular schools or trends, and there were few attempts to provide a broader and less prosopographical perspective.

Almost all the chapters in the volume originated as papers at a conference in honour of the honorand, and have been improved both by discussion there and by the rigorous peer-review process conducted by the two experienced editors. It covers various aspects of classical reception, with a particular focus on the history of scholars, their institutions, and their writings; the main focus is on the UK, but there are also substantial engagements with continental Europe and (especially) the USA; the period covered runs from the Renaissance to the present. The cast contains a number of world-famous names. Unusually, the volume also contains an essay by the honorand, but we are very keen to include this, especially as it focusses on the topic of scholarly collaboration.

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Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK; Chris Pelling, University of Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Orientation and Origins
Tracking Classical Scholarship: Myth, Evidence and Epistemology Lorna Hardwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part II: Early Modern
Classics Invented: Books, Schools, Universities and Society 1679–1742 Edith Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
The Vulgate Text of Seneca’s De beneficiis, 1475–1650 Robert A. Kaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
From Dares Phrygius to Thomas Jefferson, via Joseph of Exeter: A Study in Classical Reception Michael Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Part III: Victorian Cambridge and Oxford
The Shilleto Phenomenon David Butterfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Dangerous Lunatics: Comparative Philology in Cambridge and Beyond James Clackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
John Conington as Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford Stephen Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Part IV: History of the Book/Commentary
Fifty Years of Green and Yellow: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series 1970–2020 Roy Gibson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Gomme’s Thucydides and the Idea of the Historical Commentary Christopher Pelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
‘Pointing the Moral’ or ‘Adorning the Tale?’ Illustrations and Commentary on Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum in 19th and Early 20thcentury American Textbooks Christina Shuttleworth Kraus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Part V: International Connections
The Founding of the American Philological Association Ward Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Gender and the Classical Diaspora Judith P. Hallett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Room with a Few: Eduard Fraenkel and the Receptions of Reception Jaś Elsner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Part VI: Academic Practices
Congratulations and Celebrations: Unwrapping the Classical Festschrift Graham Whitaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Working Together: Classical Scholars in Collaboration Christopher Stray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Complete List of Publications of Christopher Stray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, Historians of scholarship, Intellectual historians, Historians of the book, Historians of universities
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 428
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
- Tables: 8
Keywords: History of scholarship; History of universities; Classical scholarship; Classical publishing

eBook

Published: April 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110719215

Hardcover

Published: April 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110718171

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111115139