![]() ![]() However, each of the competitors receives an essay, and Jebb gets two: scholarly assessments with more or less particular angles of approach. The praelections themselves are not included in the book, as the title might suggest. They enter into a competition with roots in medieval practice, being required to compete by “expounding openly in the Senate House … part of a book written in the Greek language.” 3 These expositions, or “praelections” as they were called, were subsequently published, and even honoured by a Classical Review article by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (included in the present volume with a translation by E. Sir Richard Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek, had vacated the Chair by his untimely death in December the previous year, and in January five candidates, all Cambridge scholars, stand for the position. ![]() In The Owl of Minerva we are taken back to early 1906. And nowhere more glamorous, it would appear to an outsider, than in “the Cambridge of Bentley and Porson,” to which we are now heading. There is no denying that in England, the profession once used to be a glamorous one. Calder III but in recent years much indigenous work, including several books by the editor of and contributors to the present volume. Britain in the last couple of decades has seen a steadily increasing output of research on the national history of classics initially consisting mainly of American publications (under the guidance or influence, of course, of William M. ![]() There are antecedents, indeed already a tradition to build on, that has made such a happy result possible. The well-written articles are important on several levels, often stretching the limits of the genre to become studies in “meta-philology,” as it were, with important inquiries into the conditions, methods, and purposes of scholarship as an ideal and a secular pursuit. To some degree this could perhaps be blamed on his weakness for glamorous biography, but this is far from the most prominent virtue of the book. The present book contains some of the best things the reviewer has encountered in the genre. This, of course, only serves to make it all the more interesting. The current trend seems to be the merging of the subject with that of general reception studies, so that it may sometimes be difficult to distinguish “pure” HiCS from general cultural history (as in some of the bibliography cited below, n. Petersburg, and - as in the present case - the UK. HiCS is scalding hot, not only in Urbana, Illinois, but in places like Berlin, Bologna, St. 1 If so, they have not kept up with the fashions. The history of classical scholarship is an academic genre that some may still think of as the stuffiest of all. ![]()
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