On the Origin of ‘Humanism’

I’ve been reading the second volume of R. Pfeiffer’s History of Classical Scholarship (which covers 1300-1850) and thought this was interesting (in hi

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Wilamowitz-Moellendorff/Homer’s Iliad

BMCR has a new review of a book that looks very interesting, which is centered around ‘the publication of a nearly word for word transcript of Wilamow

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Gow’s Housman

Before Saranike and I head out to do a little book hunting I thought I’d recommend A.S.F. Gow’s A.E. Housman: a sketch together with a list of his wri

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