Based on papers presented at a conference held June 2005 in Hay-on-Wye. Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222) and index.
Contents:
The democratic intellect preserved : Scotland and the classics 1826-1836 / Mick Morris -- Classics and Welsh cultural identity in the nineteenth century / Ceri Davies -- Kathleen Freeman : an apostle and evangelist for classical Greece / Eleanor Irwin -- Greek, Latin and the Indian civil service / Phiroze Vasunia -- Politics and scholarship : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and nineteenth-century British classics / Ward Briggs -- Grace Harriet Macurdy : the role of British classics in the self-fashioning of an American woman scholar / Barbara F. McManus -- J.A.K. Thomson and classical reception studies : American influences and 'classical influences' / Barbara F. McManus -- The anglicizing way : Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) and the twentieth-century transformation of classics in the USA / Judith P. Hallett.
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