Christopher Stray

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Allan Stray is a British historian of classical scholarship and teaching. Early life and education Born at Norwich, son of Peter Stray and Margaret , Stray read Classics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, taking a BA in 1966 and MA in 1985. He worked as a classics teacher, including at Latymer Upper School, West London, and was a member of the JACT Ancient History Committee in the late 1960s, under the chairmanship of Sir Moses Finley.

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A companion to classical receptions (2007) (102)
Paradigms Regained: Towards a Historical Sociology of the Textbook. (1994) (64)
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1966 (1999) (47)
Gilbert Murray Reassessed (2007) (41)
The Shift from Oral to Written Examination: Cambridge and Oxford 1700–1900 (2001) (36)
Culture and discipline: Classics and society in Victorian England (1996) (24)
"Thucydides or Grote?" Classical Disputes and Disputed Classics in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge (1997) (21)
Gilbert Murray reassessed : hellenism, theatre, and international politics (2007) (19)
Introduction: Making Connections (2008) (19)
Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre (2015) (18)
What the Victorians Learned (2007) (17)
Oxford classics : teaching and learning, 1800-2000 (2007) (12)
The living word : W.H.D. Rouse and the crisis of classics in Edwardian England (1992) (8)
Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community (2001) (7)
The Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Education (6)
Mass markets: education (2009) (5)
Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge (2003) (5)
Pedagogy and Power: Schoolboys and gentlemen: classical pedagogy and authority in the English public school (1998) (5)
Winchester Notions: The English Dialect of Winchester College (1999) (5)
British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond (2009) (4)
Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000 (2007) (4)
Expurgating the classics : editing out in Greek and Latin (2014) (4)
The smell of Latin grammar: contrary imaginings in English classrooms (1994) (3)
The Clarendon Report: English Public Schools in the Nineteenth Century (2005) (3)
Cambridge in the 1830s : the letters of Alexander Chisholm Gooden 1831-1841 (2003) (3)
:Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760–1800 (2008) (3)
The Economic Reader. Textbooks, Manuals and the Dissemination of the Economic Sciences During the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2013) (3)
SIR WILLIAM SMITH AND HIS DICTIONARIES: A STUDY IN SCARLET AND BLACK (2013) (2)
‘Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010 (2010) (2)
Primers, Publishing, and Politics: The Classical Textbooks of Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1996) (2)
The rise and fall of Porsoniasm (2007) (2)
Victorian novels of public school life (2002) (2)
Classical dictionaries : past, present and future (2010) (2)
The living word (1992) (2)
Renegotiating Classics: The Politics of Curricular Reform in Later Victorian Cambridge (1998) (1)
Paradigms of Social Order: The Politics of Latin Grammar in 19Th-Century England (1989) (1)
THE FOUNDATION AND ITS CONTEXTS (2003) (1)
History, Law, and Literature (2013) (1)
Lex Wrecks: A Tale of Two Latin Dictionaries (2012) (1)
THE GREEK-PLAY BISHOP: POLEMIC, PROSOPOGRAPHY, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRELATES* (2011) (1)
A History of Classical Scholarship: From Antiquity to the Modern Era (2011) (1)
Form and Content (2015) (1)
Digs and Degrees Jessie Crum's Tour of Greece, Easter 1901 (1995) (1)
The Wooden Spoon (2012) (1)
JEBB'S SOPHOCLES: AN EDITION AND ITS MAKER (2013) (1)
A Teutonic Monster in Oxford (2015) (1)
THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE CLASSICAL TRIPOS (1822–1922): (2020) (1)
Disciplinary Histories of Classics (2016) (0)
Gradus ad Cantabrigiam: or, a dictionary of terms . Gradus ad Cantabrigiam: or, new university guide (2002) (0)
Reception (A.) Burnett Ed. The Letters of A. E. Housman . 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. liv + 643, 585. £180. 9780198184966. (2008) (0)
Stray, Chris, "Paradigms Regained: Towards a Historical Sociology of the Textbook," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 26(January- February, 1994), 1-29. (1994) (0)
British Classics Outside England (2009) (0)
An Unknown Contemporary British Review of K. O. Muller's History and Antiquities of the Doric Race (2005) (0)
W. M. Calder, R. Scott Smith, J. Vaio (edd.): Teaching the English Wissenschaft. The Letters of Sir George Cornewall Lewis to Karl Otfried Müller (1828–1839) . (Spudasmata, 85.) Pp. xxv + 119. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2002. ISBN: 3-487-11558-1. (2003) (0)
Schoolboy Honour: A Tale of Halminster College (2013) (0)
GETTING UNDER WAY: CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE, 1904-22 (2003) (0)
The Cambridge Classical Tripos: An Appraisal. (1970) (0)
CLASSICS STRIKES BACK: THOMAS EVANS AND HIS MATHEMATOGONIA (2023) (0)
The Mushri-English pronouncing dictionary . The Mushri-English pronouncing dictionary : a chapter in 19th-century public school lexicography . Contributions towards a glossary of the Glynne language, by a student (2002) (0)
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon: An Essay-Review (2023) (0)
Notes and Articles (1996) (0)
The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran (review) (2021) (0)
K. J. Dover: Marginal Comment. A Memoir . Pp. viii + 271; ills. London: Duckworth, 1994. Cased, £20. (1996) (0)
S. Goldhill Who needs Greek? Cambridge UP, 2001. Pp. xviii + 326, ill. £45 (hbk), £15.95 (pbk). 0521812283 (hbk); 0521011760 (pbk). (2003) (0)
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe by John Considine (review) (2017) (0)
In Brief: Cultural Studies (1999) (0)
The Culture of Classicism. Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life 1780–1910 by Caroline Winterer (review) (2017) (0)
Bowra - (L.) Mitchell Maurice Bowra: a Life . Pp. xii + 385, pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Cased, £25. ISBN: 978-0-19-929584-5. (2010) (0)
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume VII: The Twentieth Century and Beyond ed. by Andrew Nash, Claire Squires, and I. R. Willison (review) (2020) (0)
Liddell and Scott: making and remaking (2010) (0)
J. Henderson, ‘Oxford Reds’: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics. R. G. Austin on Cicero and Virgil, C. J. Fordyce on Catullus, R. G. and R. G. M. Nisbet on Cicero. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. viii + 183. ISBN 0-7156-3516-6. £35.00. (2007) (0)
The Academy Abroad: The Nineteenth-Century Origin of the British School at Athens (2005) (0)
Museum criticum : Cambridge classical researches, 1814-26 (2004) (0)
THE CA'S PUBLICATIONS (2003) (0)
A LULL BETWEEN TWO STORMS: FROM THE 1920S TO THE 1950S (2003) (0)
An Irishman Abroad (2019) (0)
The philological museum, 1832-3 (2002) (0)
‘Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010 (2010) (0)
Working Together: Classical Scholars in Collaboration (2021) (0)
Teaching the English Wissenschaft. The Letters of Sir George Cornewall Lewis to Karl Otfried Müller (1828-1839) (2003) (0)
The rise of Eurocentrism. Anatomy of interpretation. (1996) (0)
The Greek Play Bishops (act. 1810-1840) (2009) (0)
Who needs Greek? (Book) (2003) (0)
Remaking the Classics (2007) (0)
Viccy Coltman. Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760–1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 256. $48.00. (2008) (0)
(N.) Aldridge GB: Master, Monster or Myth? A Biography of Geoffrey Bolton (1893–1964) . Pp. 167, ills. Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, 2008. Cased, £12.99. ISBN: 978-0-7223-3904-6. (2009) (0)
The Glory and the Grandeur: John Clarke Stobart and the Defence of High Culture in a Democratic Age (2019) (0)
Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray (eds.), Expurgating the Classics. Editing Out in Greek and Latin (2020) (0)
Grinders & grammars : a Victorian controversy : the text of thirty-six letters printed in The times following the publication of Kennedy's Public school Latin primer in September 1866 (1995) (0)
Victorian novels of Oxbridge life (2004) (0)
Book Review (2012) (0)
THE CA ARCHIVE (2003) (0)
Liddell and Scott in Historical Context (2019) (0)
Book Review:A. E. Housman at University College, London: The Election of 1892 P. G. Naiditch (1990) (0)
Boundless Life: A Biography of Andrew Joseph Armstrong (2014) (0)
Fromodiumtobellum: classical scholars at war in Europe and America, 1800–1924 (2018) (0)
J. P. Hallett and T. van Nortwick (eds), Compromising Traditions: the Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship . London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. vii + 196. ISBN 0-415-14283-0 (bound); 0-415-14284-9 (paper). £43.00 (bound); £13.99 (paper). (1999) (0)
Introduction: A Missing Person? (2019) (0)

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