Vol. 19 No. 1-2 (2013): INSTITUTIONS OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ORGANIZING CLASSICS FORMALLY AND INFORMALLY

The Absent Academy: the Organisation of Classical Scholarship in Nineteenth-century England

Christopher Stray
Swansea University

Published 2014-08-20

Keywords

  • Classics in Great Britain,
  • Cambridge University,
  • Oxford University,
  • Classical Journals in England,
  • British Academy

How to Cite

Stray, C. (2014). The Absent Academy: the Organisation of Classical Scholarship in Nineteenth-century England. Hyperboreus, 19(1-2), 214-226. https://doi.org/10.36950/hyperboreus.TUGA8752

Abstract

The focus of the paper is on the surprisingly late creation of the British Academy (1902). It is shown how, in the absence of an Academy, Classical studies were organized in nineteenth-century Great Britain: the peculiarities and correlations of the Universities, the emergence of Classical journals, and the possibilities of building a scholarly career.