Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

Music by Michele Tasin.

An interview with Professor James Diggle–Classics, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Recorded on 07.01.2021.

Contents:

0.13: introduction

SECTION 1 (general)

1.33: 54 years at Queens’
2.28: Classics at Cambridge
4.13: Stephen Oakley etc.
5.41: JD’s admission interview (1961)
7.11: advice to Oxbridge applicants
7.47: the first lecture
8.25: scholarly bilingualism

SECTION 2 (Cambridge Greek Lexicon)

10.45: the abridged LSJ
14.04: coverage
14.44: methodology
18.51: ἔχω (echō)
21.06: citations
22.45: unspeakable words
24.19: designed to replace the LSJ?
24.51: dead ends
25.49: Corippus (and Frank Goodyear)
27.45: the Housman papers (and A. S. F. Gow)

SECTION 3 (old friends and new research)

30.47: Denys Page
31.51: John Holloway
32.29: Euripides & Theophrastus

34.03: goodbyes
34.39: acknowledgements

36.10: Neil Hopkinson (13.03.1957–05.01.2021)

‘We’re gonna all be friends in heaven’ is a citation from ‘Ascension Blues’ (from Heaven Is Whenever, 2010) by The Hold Steady.

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Gabriele Rota