Oxford Classics

Teaching and Learning 1800-2000

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• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780715636459
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472537829
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Non-identical twins: classics at nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge
• 2. ‘A fleet of … inexperienced Argonauts’: Oxford women and the classics, 1873-1920
• 3. Jude the Obscure: Oxford’s classical outcasts
• 4. Newman and Arnold: classics, Christianity and manliness in Tractarian Oxford
• 5. Walter Pater’s teaching in Oxford: classics and aestheticism
• 6. Schoolmaster, don, educator: Arthur Sidgwick moves to Corpus in 1879
• 7. Conington’s ‘Roman Homer’
• 8. Henry Nettleship and the beginning of modern Latin studies at Oxford
• 9. ‘Liddell and Scott’: precursors, nineteenth-century editions, and the American contributions
• 10. Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919): Oxford, Roman archaeology and Edwardian imperialism
• 11. What you didn’t read: the unpublished Oxford Classical Texts
• 12. Alfred Zimmern’s The Greek Commonwealth revisited
• 13. Eduard Fraenkel recalled
• 14. The study of classical literature at Oxford, 1936-1988
• 15. Small Latin and less Greek: Oxford adjusts to changing circumstances
• Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint Page