Cambridge Philological Society

Based at the University of Cambridge Classics Faculty, the Cambridge Philological Society meets around three times per term to hear papers delivered by visiting speakers. It is also responsible for the publication of the Cambridge Classical Journal and its Supplements.

Sensing Greek Drama Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9781913701468
Pub Date: 11 Jun 2024
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Description:
Sensing Greek Drama explores ancient Greek tragedy and comedy through the lens of the senses. It works within and beyond a number of recent developments in the scholarship of Classics and related fields. The essays within the volume engage with the senses in drama in manifold ways: through various theoretical frameworks borrowed from kindred fields in the humanities and sciences - postmodernism, humanism, feminism, phenomenology, cognitive theory and neuroscience, to name a few - as well as through the more traditional approaches within Classics of philology, historicism, performance studies and reception.
Munere Mortis Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781913701444
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2022
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Illustrations: 1 b&w
Description:
Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honour his memory. The papers combine philology and textual criticism with a strong interest in setting the works under examination in their literary and cultural context.
Steely-Eyed Athena Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781913701420
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2022
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Description:
This monograph uses the life and work of ground-breaking female classicist, Wilmer Cave Wright, to examine several questions about the rise of women in that discipline. First, what went into the creation of a classics scholar under circumstances that would seem to preclude that? Second, why was it arguably Wright’s time in Chicago that was her formative experience and period?
Poems without Poets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 230
ISBN: 9781913701406
Pub Date: 15 May 2021
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Illustrations: 3 b&w
Description:
The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the centre, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as, for instance, the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the learned interpolation that is the Helen episode in Aeneid 2, but they all have in common that they have been maltreated in various ways, consciously or through neglect, by generations of readers and scholars, ancient as well as modern. These accumulated layers of obliteration, which can manifest, for instance, in textual distortions or aesthetic condemnation, make it all but impossible to access anonymous poems in their pristine shape and context.
Simonides Lyricus Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9780956838179
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2020
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Illustrations: 2 b&w
Description:
Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet’s melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides’ afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name.
Augustus and the Destruction of History Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9780956838162
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Illustrations: 10 b&w
Description:
Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern endeavours to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency – not least to challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and his principate and its representation in historiographical discourse, ancient and modern.
Word and Context in Latin Poetry Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 182
ISBN: 9780956838155
Pub Date: 20 Oct 2017
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Illustrations: 1 b&w
Description:
This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The contributors – Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles and Tony Woodman – have aimed to produce close readings of classical texts, paying due attention to historical context and literary tradition in the manner adopted by David West himself. The authors covered are Empedocles, Antisthenes, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace (Epodes and Odes), Propertius, Virgil (Aeneid), Dio Chrysostom and Hildebert of Lavardin.
Sophocles’ Jebb Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780956838131
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP for the University from 1891 until his death, Jebb became a national spokesman for the humanities. “Sophocles’ Jebb” charts his career through 275 newly discovered letters, presented here with introductions and full annotation.
RRP: £52.50
Menander: Eleven Plays Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9780956838124
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2013
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in August 2010, he was working towards a new edition of Menander for the series Oxford Classical Texts, for which he had completed only the shorter pieces: Dis Exapaton, Encheiridion, Georgos, Heros, Karchedonios, Kitharistes, Koneiazomenai, Leukadia, Perinthia, Phasma and Theophoroumene. The present volume contains the papyri and book fragments of these eleven plays, edited by Colin Austin.
Ratio et res ipsa Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780956838117
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2011
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Since 1966, when James Diggle was elected to his Fellowship at Queen's College, Cambridge, his teaching and scholarly example have inspired many of his pupils to embark on their own academic careers. In this volume fourteen former pupils have contributed essays to mark his retirement. The contributions cover many of the diverse disciplines of Classics: Greek literature, Greek language, Latin literature, Textual Criticism, Greek and Roman Culture and the History of Scholarship.
RRP: £45.00
Unclassical Traditions Volume 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780956838100
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2011
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Unclassical Traditions. Volume II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity is the second of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with the classical past. Rather than concentrating on developments at the centre of empire (the focus of a previous volume, Unclassical Traditions I ), the aim here is to present a set of views from the margins: social, political, religious, literary, geographical and linguistic.
RRP: £45.00
Unclassical Traditions Volume 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780906014332
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2010
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity is the first of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with its classical heritage. This issue has long been at the heart of modern historical debate and, as this volume demonstrates, it was no less a matter of concern among authors and audiences in the period itself. From the Chronological Tables of Eusebius of Caesarea to the Brevarium of Festus and from the imperial panegyric to the Byzantine liturgy, eight papers explore how the persistence, dominance and normative nature of the classical tradition in its various forms could be negotiated, undermined, ironised or even flatly denied.
Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 2
ISBN: 9780906014318
Pub Date: 14 Jan 2008
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
This volume presents new work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of its speakers. Classical and Indo-European linguistics have been particularly exciting areas of research in recent years, and this book is intended to provide insight into some of the main areas of current debate. It stems from an international conference held in Cambridge in 2005 and includes contributions from keynote speakers Andreas Willi and Joshua Katz.
RRP: £45.00
Ennius Perennis Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9780906014301
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2007
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Ennius Perennis: the Annals and Beyond is a collection of eight essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects of the poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). Ennius' epic poem the Annals and his many other works, including tragedies, satires and epigrams, survive only in mystifying fragments, but his influence on Latin poetry was enormous. He is now beginning to be appreciated, thanks both to excellent critical editions and to more enlightened literary and historical approaches, as a complex and varied poet and a fascinating representative of an era of intense cultural and political change.
RRP: £45.00
Theophrastus and his World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 188
ISBN: 9780906014325
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2007
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
This is the first extended study in English of Theophrastus' Characters , one of the briefest but also most influential works to survive from classical antiquity. Since the seventeenth century, the Characters has served as a model and an inspiration for authors as diverse as La Bruyère, Thackeray, George Eliot and Elias Canetti. This study aims to locate Theophrastus and his Characters with respect to the political and philosophical worlds of Athens in the late fourth century, focusing on later imitators in order to provide clues to reading the Theophrastan original.
RRP: £45.00
Greeks on Greekness Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 194
ISBN: 9780906014288
Pub Date: 18 Oct 2006
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves..
RRP: £45.00