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