The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

Download or read book The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906 written by Christopher Stray and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.