A lively study of the life and times of J. E. B. Mayor, one of the towering figures of Classics in Victorian Britain, and author of a still standard commentary on Juvenal's Satires.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Frontispiece
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Advertisement
• Chapter 1: Quit you like men of 1882: Mayor’s Philological Society
• Chapter 2: Mayor’s friend, the publisher. And Juvenal
• Chapter 3: Some fell among thieves: How did Blackwell’s get it? | Not that I’d give it back
• Chapter 4: The lectures of Father Time: Not every boy can hope to become a Prof. Mayor
• Chapter 5: Which journal? Whose Classics?
• Chapter 6: Becoming a back number
• Chapter 7: Der beste Commentar
• Chapter 8: Yesterday’s radical
• Chapter 9: Water babies and history men
• Chapter 10: Musical chairs: Kennedy’s Latin prima donnas
• Chapter 11: Rui/nning the Library: the man from UCL
• Chapter 12: Feed the world
• Chapter 13: Addenda
• List of illustrations
• Bibliography
  • 1 Mayor
    • 1.1 Juvenal
    • 1.2 Other publications
  • 2 Others
• Indexes
  • 1 Mayor’s Juvenal
  • 2 Mayoriana
  • 3 Mice and men
  • 4 Greek and Latin texts
  • 5 Cambridge institutions and classical studies; journals
  • 6 General
• Back Cover