Sophocles' Jebb by Chris Stray;

Author:Chris Stray;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2020-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

161Probably a reference to, inter alios, George Macmillan, and to a meeting of the committee formed at the meeting at Marlborough House on 25 June to establish the British School at Athens. Suspicion of Oxonian moves, led by Bywater, is a running theme in Jebb’s letters on this topic. For Bywater, see n.109 above.

162 The 3rd Marquess of Bute was a generous benefactor of the University, but was widely disapproved of because of his conversion to Roman Catholicism (119). He served twice as Rector of St Andrews (to which he also donated heavily) from 1892 till 1898. Henry Fawcett was Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge 1863–84. He was MP for Hackney 1874–84, was appointed Postmaster-General in 1880 and introduced the parcel post in 1883.

163 Of Aristophanes’ The Birds, the second Cambridge Greek Play, following the Ajax (1882). The play was co-produced by Clark and Charles Waldstein, with music by Hubert Parry.

164 ‘Old Comedy on a new stage’, Fortnightly Review NS 35 (Jan. 1884), 89–98.

165 Geraldine Jebb, the wife of his brother Heneage.

166 An anonymous review of Schliemann’s Troja appeared in the issue of 8 December (pp. 735–7). Schliemann is taken to task for abusive references to Jebb, and criticised for perpetrating the logical fallacies he attributes to Jebb and others.

167 ‘Homeric Troy’, Fortnightly Review 41 (Apr. 1884), 433–52. The letter to The Times, if sent, was not published.

168 He did not review Troja, though he did review Sayce’s Herodotus in the April issue (vol. 159, pp. 524–60).

169 The volume never appeared. The collection of 14 papers (1868–82) which survives in UCL Special Collections, Ogden 237, perhaps belongs to this project.

170 The letter is unsigned. Desmond was the family home near Dublin: see 3.

171 Enthusiastically misdated 1885 by Verrall.

172 Verrall was sending texts and fair copies of Greek passages for use in Jebb’s teaching.

173 [‘By Mahaffy’: R.C.J.]

174 [‘Feb 2 1884’: R.C.J.]

175 The pot calls the kettle black. Verrall refers to D.S. Margoliouth’s Studia scenica. Pt.1. Section 1: Introductory study on the text of the Greek dramas: the text of Sophocles’ Trachiniae, 1–300 (London, 1883). The brilliant and eccentric Margoliouth had been a fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1881; he was elected to the Laudian chair of Arabic in 1889. His work on Greek and Arabic combined penetrating insight with extreme quirkiness – as in his claim that the opening lines of the Homeric poems contained anagrams of Homer’s name and details of his life. His ‘fling’ may be the review of Jebb’s OT which appeared in the Academy on 26 April (pp. 298–9); Jebb and his friends perhaps caught wind of its preparation.

176 Jebb’s enquiry was presumably prompted by J.B. Mayor’s initial proposals of a journal to Cambridge University Press: see 141. Mayor’s campaign led in 1887 to the appearance of the Classical Review.

177 In the Academy of 2 February (pp. 81–2), Mahaffy had reviewed ‘Three books on the Greek drama’ – none of them by Jebb. While discussing D.S. Margoliouth’s brilliant but eccentric Studia scenica, Mahaffy had quoted

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