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Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press. First established in 1901 by Grant Richards and purchased by OUP in 1906, this imprint publishes primarily dramatic and classic literature for students and the general public.
Oxford Classical Texts (OCT), or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of books published by Oxford University Press. It contains texts of ancient Greek and Latin literature, such as Homer 's Odyssey and Virgil 's Aeneid , in the original language with a critical apparatus .
The University of Oxford's classics course, also known as greats, is divided into two parts, lasting five terms and seven terms respectively, the whole lasting four years in total, which is one year more than most arts degrees at Oxford and other English universities. The course of studies leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree. Throughout, there ...
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (OCCC), part of the Oxford Companions [9] series of Oxford University Press, is an independent publication consisting of a selection of articles from the OCD, with accompanying illustrations.
The Faculty of Classics, previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, is a subdivision of the University of Oxford concerned with the teaching and research of classics. The teaching of classics at Oxford was present since its conception and was at the centre of nearly all its undergraduates' education well into the twentieth century.
In 1901, the publishing house launched The World's Classics, a reprinted series of out of copyright literary classics. [1] In 1905, the series was acquired by Henry Frowde of Oxford University Press, which continues to publish the series as Oxford World's Classics. [2] Richards declared bankruptcy in 1905.
Oxford University Press first published a complete works of Shakespeare in 1891. Entitled The Complete Works , it was a single-volume modern-spelling edition edited by William James Craig . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This 1891 text is not directly related to the series known as the Oxford Shakespeare today, which is freshly re-edited.
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, first published in London by Thomas Hookham in 1789. In her introduction to the 1995 Oxford World Classic's edition of the text, Alison Milbank stated that the novel's plot "unites action of a specifically Scottish medieval nature with the characterization and morality of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility."