Eight essays in which Classicists examine the history of their own subject as taught and practised at Cambridge University in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the foundations were laid for the modern contours of the subject.
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Contents
Abbreviations
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Contributors
Introduction
Chapter I: The First Century of the Classical Tripos (1822–1922): High Culture and the Politics of Curriculum
Chapter II: Henry Sidgwick, Cambridge Classics, and the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Decisive Years, 1866–9
Chapter III: The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play: 1882–1912
Chapter IV: Women and the Classical Tripos 1869–1914
Chapter V: Nothing But Gibberish and Shibboleths?: The Compulsory Greek Debates, 1870–1919
Chapter VI: The Invention (And Reinvention) of ‘Group D’: An Archaeology of the Classical Tripos, 1879–1984
Chapter VII: Winifred Lamb and the Fitzwilliam Museum
Chapter VIII: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club: A Brief Antiphonal Account, With An Appendix
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Eight essays in which Classicists examine the history of their own subject as taught and practised at Cambridge University in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the foundations were laid for the modern contours of the subject.
Table of contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter I: The First Century of the Classical Tripos (1822–1922): High Culture and the Politics of Curriculum
Chapter II: Henry Sidgwick, Cambridge Classics, and the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Decisive Years, 1866–9
Chapter III: The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play: 1882–1912
Chapter IV: Women and the Classical Tripos 1869–1914
Chapter V: Nothing But Gibberish and Shibboleths?: The Compulsory Greek Debates, 1870–1919
Chapter VI: The Invention (And Reinvention) of ‘Group D’: An Archaeology of the Classical Tripos, 1879–1984
Chapter VII: Winifred Lamb and the Fitzwilliam Museum
Chapter VIII: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club: A Brief Antiphonal Account, With An Appendix
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