Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship

by Judith P. Hallett (Editor), Thomas Van Nortwick (Editor)

Compromising Traditions is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies which aims to create a more expansive and authoritative form of classical scholarship.

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 1996

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best essays are: Martindale on autobiography and scholarship; Hallet on American classics; Beye on his own life as a gay, American classicist of an older generation; Nortwick on the purpose of classical scholarship; Wiltshire on "the authority of experience"