Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Tables XI
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Orientation and Origins
8. Tracking Classical Scholarship: Myth, Evidence and Epistemology 9
9. Part II: Early Modern
10. Classics Invented: Books, Schools, Universities and Society 1679–1742 35
11. The Vulgate Text of Seneca’s De beneficiis, 1475–1650 59
12. From Dares Phrygius to Thomas Jefferson, via Joseph of Exeter: A Study in Classical Reception 81
13. Part III: Victorian Cambridge and Oxford
14. The Shilleto Phenomenon 101
15. Dangerous Lunatics: Comparative Philology in Cambridge and Beyond 131
16. John Conington as Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford 155
17. Part IV: History of the Book/Commentary
18. Fifty Years of Green and Yellow: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series 1970–2020 175
19. Gomme’s Thucydides and the Idea of the Historical Commentary 219
20. ‘Pointing the Moral’ or ‘Adorning the Tale?’ Illustrations and Commentary on Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum in 19th and Early 20thcentury American Textbooks 249
21. Part V: International Connections
22. The Founding of the American Philological Association 277
23. Gender and the Classical Diaspora 301
24. Room with a Few: Eduard Fraenkel and the Receptions of Reception 319
25. Part VI: Academic Practices
26. Congratulations and Celebrations: Unwrapping the Classical Festschrift 351
27. Working Together: Classical Scholars in Collaboration 377
28. Complete List of Publications of Christopher Stray 401
29. List of Contributors 411
30. Index 413