The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906: Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall

Christopher Stray

aug 2020 · Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume Boek 28 · Cambridge Philological Society

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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.

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Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, University of Wales, Swansea.