The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906

This volume studies Sir Richard Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge until his death in 1905, and the public competition («praelections») in which five scholars — James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall — competed to become his successor. Eight essays are followed by Wilamowitz's entertaining review of the five candidates' orations, with a new translation by E. J. Kenney.