The Classical Tradition

The Classical Tradition
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1188
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674035720

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Sophocles’ Jebb

Sophocles’ Jebb
Author: Chris Stray
Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-05-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1913701018

Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP for the University from 1891 until his death, Jebb became a national spokesman for the humanities. “Sophocles’ Jebb” charts his career through 275 newly discovered letters, presented here with introductions and full annotation. By allowing Jebb and his contemporaries to speak in their own words, it enables a significant reassessment of a key cultural figure of late Victorian Britain and sheds fresh light on public and academic debate of the time. The volume ends with a new, comprehensive list of Jebb’s publications.

Ask the Ancients: Astonishing Advice for Daily Dilemmas

Ask the Ancients: Astonishing Advice for Daily Dilemmas
Author: Sylvia Gray
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 161041117X

Ancient authorities from the Western classical tradition offer opinions on these and other burning questions. The advice is often astonishing-for its wisdom, its entertainment value, or its complete lack of concern for modern sensibilities. The author, who collected these fascinating tidbits as she worked her way through many of the extant classical sources, can't help but enter the discussion with her own thoughts as well.

The Classical Journal

The Classical Journal
Author: Abraham John Valpy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108057934

This forty-volume collection comprises all the issues of an early and influential classical periodical, first published between 1810 and 1829.

The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period

The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period
Author: Daniel J. Taylor
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027245290

The study of Greek and Roman language science has figured prominently in the remarkable renascence of interest in the history of linguistics of the last twenty years. We know more now than we did several decades ago about what the Greeks and Romans were thinking, writing, and doing in matters grammatical, and the scholars who contribute to this volume are among the ones who are responsible for that happy circumstance. The contents of this book bear ample testimony to the enhanced and enlarged understanding and appreciation of ancient grammar that we now enjoy. Each article in this volume has something new to say about the history of linguistics in the classical period, and each author insists that we need to return to ancient texts time and time again and that we need to read them even more carefully. The rethinking so conspicuous in much of the recent scholarship in this field is pointing in the direction of a new historiographical model of Greek and Latin linguistic science. The text of this volume has also been published in "Historiographia Linguistica "XIII:2/3