Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

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.

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors Preface 1. Non-identical twins: classics at nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge - Christopher Stray 2. 'A fleet of inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the classics, 1873-1920 - Isobel Hurst 3. Jude the Obscure: Oxford's classical outcasts - Edmund Richardson 4. Newman and Arnold: classics, Christianity and manliness in Tractarian Oxford - Heather Ellis 5. Walter Pater's teaching in Oxford: classics and aestheticism - Stefano Evangelista 6. Schoolmaster, don, educator: Arthur Sidgwick moves to Corpus in 1879 - Christopher Collard 7. Conington's 'Roman Homer'- Anne Rogerson 8. Henry Nettleship and the beginning of modern Latin studies at Oxford - Stephen Harrison 9. 'Liddell and Scott': precursors, nineteenth-century editions, and the American contributions - August A. Imholtz, Jr. 10. Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919): Oxford, Roman archaeology and Edwardian imperialism - Richard Hingley 11. What you didn't read: the unpublished Oxford Classical Texts - Graham Whitaker 12. Alfred Zimmern's The Greek Commonwealth revisited - Paul Millett 13. Eduard Fraenkel recalled - Stephanie West 14. The study of classical literature at Oxford, 1936-1988 - Robin Nisbet and Donald Russell 15. Small Latin and less Greek: Oxford adjusts to changing Circumstances - James Morwood Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Swansea, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Classics, University of London. He is a leading authority on the history of classical scholarship. His publications include Remaking the Classics: literature, genre and media in Britain, 1800-2000 (2007), A.E. Housman: classical scholar (2009) and Classical Dictionaries: past, present and future (2010).