Overview
This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously published articles, now newly revised, and never before published work. Arranged in three Parts, the chapters cover topics ranging from the school classroom to the politics of universities, and from the social uses of classical knowledge to the publishing of textbooks. Engaging and insightful in isolation, together they offer an expansive and unparalleled overview of the history and sociology of classical education and scholarship between 1800 and 2000.
Full Product Details
Author: Christopher Stray (Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Swansea University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.764kg
ISBN: 9780199569373
ISBN 10: 0199569371
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 18 October 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
One of the merits (and charms) of Stray's work is his ability to find unusual ways of looking at things ... Stray sees both the wood and the trees, and offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed. * Richard Jenkyns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
...the eighteen essays collected here, all but two previously published, unfold a record of past practices and the larger debates they engendered that offer much-needed perspective on our current travails...an invaluable resource as we look to our past for help in shaping our future. * Sander M. Goldberg, University of California, The Classical Journal * [Stray] has extensively researched the history of textbooks, and there is much curious detail here. * John Taylor, University of Manchester, The Journal of Roman Studies * Classics in Britain constitutes another clear and bright beam through the often opaque history of British Classics as a scholarly discipline.... Perhaps the most precious feature of Stray's magisterial tome is his finely tuned ear to the periods' witty or ridiculous turns of phrase, his keen eye for enriching but not overburdening detail, and the occasional oddball fact, all of which make his writing about let's face it often austere, sometimes dry, subject matter both impressively learned and amusingly human. * Emma Bridges and Henry Stead, Greece & Rome * Over the past thirty years or so Christopher Stray has made himself uniquely expert in what might be called the sociology of British Classics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... One of the merits (and charms) of Stray's work is his ability to find unusual ways of looking at things... Stray offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed. * Richard Jenkyns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
One of the merits (and charms) of Stray's work is his ability to find unusual ways of looking at things ... Stray sees both the wood and the trees, and offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed. * Richard Jenkyns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Over the past thirty years or so Christopher Stray has made himself uniquely expert in what might be called the sociology of British Classics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . . . this is a book where the whole is greater than the parts: Stray sees both the wood and the trees, and offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed. * Richard Jenkyns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Classics in Britain constitutes another clear and bright beam through the often opaque history of British Classics as a scholarly discipline. perhaps the most precious feature of Stray's magisterial tome is his ?nely tuned ear to the periods' witty or ridiculous turns of phrase, his keen eye for enriching but not overburdening detail, and the occasional oddball fact, all of which make his writing about let's face it often austere, sometimes dry, subject matter both impressively learned and amusingly human. * Emma Bridges, Greece & Rome *
Over the past thirty years or so Christopher Stray has made himself uniquely expert in what might be called the sociology of British Classics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... One of the merits (and charms) of Stray's work is his ability to find unusual ways of looking at things... Stray offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed. * Richard Jenkyns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Classics in Britain constitutes another clear and bright beam through the often opaque history of British Classics as a scholarly discipline.... Perhaps the most precious feature of Stray's magisterial tome is his finely tuned ear to the periods' witty or ridiculous turns of phrase, his keen eye for enriching but not overburdening detail, and the occasional oddball fact, all of which make his writing about let's face it often austere, sometimes dry, subject matter both impressively learned and amusingly human. * Emma Bridges and Henry Stead, Greece & Rome * [Stray] has extensively researched the history of textbooks, and there is much curious detail here. * John Taylor, University of Manchester, The Journal of Roman Studies * Classics in Britain constitutes another clear and bright beam through the often opaque history of British Classics as a scholarly discipline...both impressively learned and amusingly human. * Emma Bridges, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Greece & Rome *
One of the merits (and charms) of Stray's work is his ability to find unusual ways of looking at things ... Stray sees both the wood and the trees, and offers a thickness of detail through which a larger idea of British classical studies is well conveyed. * Richard Jenkyns, N/A, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Author Information
Christopher Stray is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Swansea University and the holder of qualifications in Classics, sociology, and education. After spending time teaching in schools, he has devoted himself to research and publication on the history of Classics in schools and universities, working extensively in archives of British, Irish, Greek, and American institutions. He co-founded the Textbook Colloquium in 1988 with Ian Michael and has authored and (co-)edited several works on classical and other textbooks, though he is best known for his major study, Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960 (OUP, 1998). He is currently working on studies of the Hellenists E. R. Dodds and Kenneth Dover, and on Liddell and Scott's Greek lexicon, as well as writing chapters on Classics and education for the forthcoming history of Trinity College, Cambridge.
