Sir John Edwin Sandys' three-volume work on the history of classical scholarship remains unchallenged. Nothing like it in scale or scope has been published since it first appeared a century ago. Ranging from 600 BC to the modern times, Sandys includes material on all aspects of classical scholarship - history, archaeology, philosophy, literature, religion, politics -- as well as providing accounts of the principal figures who helped determine the course of classical scholarship through the ages. Beginning in the Athenian age Sandys traces the growth of scholarship in Alexandrian and Roman...
Sir John Edwin Sandys' three-volume work on the history of classical scholarship remains unchallenged. Nothing like it in scale or scope has been p...
