The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906
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Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781913701345
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Download or read book The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906 written by Christopher Stray and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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