Christopher Stray
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Stray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Stray |
| SIGNATURE | STRAY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4270-8018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge: John Wright’s Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon: An Essay-Review
This is an essay-review of The Cambridge Greek Lexicon
Classical Scholarship and Its History: From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally change…
The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906: Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall
An Irishman Abroad
This chapter discusses E.R. Dodds’s life in Oxford. To understand what Dodds did in Oxford, an analysis of what he brought to it is needed. One way to look at this is to compare him with his teacher Gilbert Murray, who, like him, combined profound knowledge of Greek with an awareness of areas beyond language and the classical world. Dodds’s wider interests were perhaps not as wide-ranging as Murray’s, but his linguistic scholarship was more rigor…
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Associati…
From odium to bellum: Classical scholars at war in Europe and America, 1800–1924
The scholarly wars between British and German academics in World War I are to be seen in the context of a more general odium philologicum which can be traced back to the growth of nationalism in the nineteenth century. The century proved an unsettled period in international relations, with tensions between various European powers affecting competing scholarly programmes, including the establishment of archaeological schools and institutes in Athe…
Reid, James Smith (1846–1926)
J. S. Reid combined the Cambridge tradition of exact linguistic scholarship with knowledge of post‐Aristotelian philosophy, legal training, and a consistent focus on Cicero. The last two led him to explore the life of the Roman provinces in his Municipalities of the Roman empire (1913).
Headlam[‐Morley], (Sir) James (1863–1929)
James Headlam was a talented ancient historian, best remembered now for his prize essay Election by lot at Athens (1891). Obliged to look beyond academe for employment, he became an inspector of schools, produced wartime propaganda, joined the intelligence department of the Foreign Office and later became its historical adviser.
Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre
This book consists of twenty-six chapters on classical commentaries which deal with commentaries from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The book contributes to the interface between two emerging fields of study: the history of scholarship and the history of the book. It builds on earlier work on this area by paying particular attention to: (1) specific editions, whether those regarded as classics in their own right, or those that seem r…
Educational Publishing
The Press began to publish school books intensively from the 1860s onwards, prompted by the arrival of vigorous new Delegates, the appointment of Alexander Macmillan as Publisher, and by the expanding public and middle-class school sector. This chapter begins by tracing the Press's approach to textbook publishing for university and school students before the 1860s, before tackling the development and reception of the Clarendon Press Series, whose…
Classics
Although study of the classics was central to the University's activities throughout the period discussed in this book, it was in the first half of the nineteenth century rivalled by, and linked to, the study of religion. The curriculum gradually broadened to include new areas of knowledge, and new markets for Press books, thereby weakening the predominance of the classics in the second half of the century. This chapter considers first the growth…
Jebb's Sophocles: An Edition and Its Maker
Journal Article JEBB'S SOPHOCLES: AN EDITION AND ITS MAKER Get access CHRISTOPHER STRAY CHRISTOPHER STRAY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 75–96, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02526.x Published: 06 February 2014
Sir William Smith and His Dictionaries: A Study in Scarlet and Black
SIR WILLIAM SMITH AND HIS DICTIONARIES: A STUDY IN SCARLET AND BLACK Get access CHRISTOPHER STRAY CHRISTOPHER STRAY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 35–54, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02524.x Published: 06 February 2014
The Greek-Play Bishop: Polemic, Prosopography, and Nineteenth-Century Prelates
Discussions of classical scholarship and of the Anglican church in Victorian England have both at times identified an ‘age of the Greek-play bishop’ during which there was a close relationship between classical distinction and episcopal promotion. Closer investigation reveals few prelates fitting the description. This article explains this paradox by tracing the idea of the ‘Greek-play bishop’ across a variety of nineteenth-century literatures, i…
Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010
This essay offers a survey of the history of the Roman Society during the 100 years since its foundation in 1910. It discusses relations with other classical bodies, especially the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association; the Society's fragile finances until the 1950s; and the key role played over several decades by its Secretary, Margerie Taylor. Separate sections deal with the Society's library; its journals, the Journal of Roman Studies…
Gilbert Murray Reassessed: Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics
What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks
What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks Get access Leslie Howsam, Leslie Howsam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Stray, Christopher Stray 2University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alice Jenkins, Alice Jenkins 3University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Introduction: Making Connections
A Companion to Classical Receptions
Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. The book provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area i…
Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960
"Thucydides or Grote?" Classical Disputes and Disputed Classics in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge
Christopher Stray, "Thucydides or Grote?" Classical Disputes and Disputed Classics in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge, Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-2014), Vol. 127 (1997), pp. 363-371
V. Lambropoulos, The rise of Eurocentrism. Anatomy of interpretation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, UP, 1994. pp.xiii, 471
Digs and Degrees Jessie Crum's Tour of Greece, Easter 1901
A Companion to Classical Receptions
Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. The book provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area i…
Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre
This book consists of twenty-six chapters on classical commentaries which deal with commentaries from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The book contributes to the interface between two emerging fields of study: the history of scholarship and the history of the book. It builds on earlier work on this area by paying particular attention to: (1) specific editions, whether those regarded as classics in their own right, or those that seem r…
Introduction: Making Connections
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access C. A. STRAY C. A. STRAY Unversity CollegeSwansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 428, July 1993, Pages 737-a–738, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.737-a Published: 01 July 1993
Digs and Degrees Jessie Crum's Tour of Greece, Easter 1901
V. Lambropoulos, The rise of Eurocentrism. Anatomy of interpretation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, UP, 1994. pp.xiii, 471
"Thucydides or Grote?" Classical Disputes and Disputed Classics in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge
Christopher Stray, "Thucydides or Grote?" Classical Disputes and Disputed Classics in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge, Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-2014), Vol. 127 (1997), pp. 363-371
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960
Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community
What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks
What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks Get access Leslie Howsam, Leslie Howsam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Stray, Christopher Stray 2University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alice Jenkins, Alice Jenkins 3University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Introduction: Making Connections
A Companion to Classical Receptions
Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. The book provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area i…
Gilbert Murray Reassessed: Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics
Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010
This essay offers a survey of the history of the Roman Society during the 100 years since its foundation in 1910. It discusses relations with other classical bodies, especially the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association; the Society's fragile finances until the 1950s; and the key role played over several decades by its Secretary, Margerie Taylor. Separate sections deal with the Society's library; its journals, the Journal of Roman Studies…
The Greek-Play Bishop: Polemic, Prosopography, and Nineteenth-Century Prelates
Discussions of classical scholarship and of the Anglican church in Victorian England have both at times identified an ‘age of the Greek-play bishop’ during which there was a close relationship between classical distinction and episcopal promotion. Closer investigation reveals few prelates fitting the description. This article explains this paradox by tracing the idea of the ‘Greek-play bishop’ across a variety of nineteenth-century literatures, i…
Educational Publishing
The Press began to publish school books intensively from the 1860s onwards, prompted by the arrival of vigorous new Delegates, the appointment of Alexander Macmillan as Publisher, and by the expanding public and middle-class school sector. This chapter begins by tracing the Press's approach to textbook publishing for university and school students before the 1860s, before tackling the development and reception of the Clarendon Press Series, whose…
Classics
Although study of the classics was central to the University's activities throughout the period discussed in this book, it was in the first half of the nineteenth century rivalled by, and linked to, the study of religion. The curriculum gradually broadened to include new areas of knowledge, and new markets for Press books, thereby weakening the predominance of the classics in the second half of the century. This chapter considers first the growth…
Jebb's Sophocles: An Edition and Its Maker
Journal Article JEBB'S SOPHOCLES: AN EDITION AND ITS MAKER Get access CHRISTOPHER STRAY CHRISTOPHER STRAY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 75–96, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02526.x Published: 06 February 2014
Sir William Smith and His Dictionaries: A Study in Scarlet and Black
SIR WILLIAM SMITH AND HIS DICTIONARIES: A STUDY IN SCARLET AND BLACK Get access CHRISTOPHER STRAY CHRISTOPHER STRAY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 56, Issue Supplement_101, January 2013, Pages 35–54, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.tb02524.x Published: 06 February 2014
Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre
This book consists of twenty-six chapters on classical commentaries which deal with commentaries from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The book contributes to the interface between two emerging fields of study: the history of scholarship and the history of the book. It builds on earlier work on this area by paying particular attention to: (1) specific editions, whether those regarded as classics in their own right, or those that seem r…
Reid, James Smith (1846–1926)
J. S. Reid combined the Cambridge tradition of exact linguistic scholarship with knowledge of post‐Aristotelian philosophy, legal training, and a consistent focus on Cicero. The last two led him to explore the life of the Roman provinces in his Municipalities of the Roman empire (1913).
Headlam[‐Morley], (Sir) James (1863–1929)
James Headlam was a talented ancient historian, best remembered now for his prize essay Election by lot at Athens (1891). Obliged to look beyond academe for employment, he became an inspector of schools, produced wartime propaganda, joined the intelligence department of the Foreign Office and later became its historical adviser.
From odium to bellum: Classical scholars at war in Europe and America, 1800–1924
The scholarly wars between British and German academics in World War I are to be seen in the context of a more general odium philologicum which can be traced back to the growth of nationalism in the nineteenth century. The century proved an unsettled period in international relations, with tensions between various European powers affecting competing scholarly programmes, including the establishment of archaeological schools and institutes in Athe…
An Irishman Abroad
This chapter discusses E.R. Dodds’s life in Oxford. To understand what Dodds did in Oxford, an analysis of what he brought to it is needed. One way to look at this is to compare him with his teacher Gilbert Murray, who, like him, combined profound knowledge of Greek with an awareness of areas beyond language and the classical world. Dodds’s wider interests were perhaps not as wide-ranging as Murray’s, but his linguistic scholarship was more rigor…
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Associati…
The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906: Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall
Classical Scholarship and Its History: From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally change…
Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge: John Wright’s Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge
History (19 works) · Art (15 works) · Classics (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Literature (7 works)