The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

This volume studies Sir Richard Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge until his death in 1905, and the public competition ("praelections") in which five scholars - James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall - competed to become his successor. Eight essays are followed by Wilamowitz's entertaining review of the five candidates' orations, with a new translation by E. J. Kenney.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Flying at dusk: the 1906 praelections
• Chapter 2: Reading Jebb: life and afterlife
• Chapter 3: ‘The speaking page’: reading Sophocles with Jebb
• Chapter 4: James Adam ‘in the arena of the South’: an Aberdeen Platonist in Cambridge
• Chapter 5: Walter Headlam: scholarship, poetry, poetics
• Chapter 6: ‘One of the great English worthies’: Henry Jackson reassessed
• Chapter 7: ‘While RIDGEWAY lives, Research can ne’er be dull’
• Chapter 8: Problematic Verrall: the sceptic at law
• Appendix: Cambridge praelections 1906 reviewed Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
• Wilamowitz’s review: an annotated translation
• Index
• Back Cover