Not You
Mary Beard, 23 January 1997
Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship
edited by J.P. Hallett and T. van Nortwick.
Routledge, 196 pp., £42.50, November 1996,0 415 14284 9 Show More
edited by J.P. Hallett and T. van Nortwick.
Routledge, 196 pp., £42.50, November 1996,
“... to diversify the sorts of voices heard’. In the United States the villains, if I follow Judith Hallett correctly, are the immigrants from classical departments in Europe, whose stranglehold on prestigious jobs, and so also on the definition of ‘standards’, has largely prevented the development of an authoritatively American voice in classics. None of ... ”