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