Oxford Classics

Oxford the home of lost causes the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social institutional cultural. Its rival Cambridge was long dominated by mathematics while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum teaching and learning scholarly style publishing gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. Greats (<i>Literae Humaniores</i>) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reforms. <br/><br/>An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge Classics and several old favourites are revisited including such familiar Oxford products as Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon the Oxford Classical Texts and Zimmern's Greek Commonwealth. The book as a whole offers a pioneering wide-ranging survey of Classics in Oxford.