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Date(s)
- [1922-1995] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
7 boxes or 0.07 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers of Professor Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, [1922-1995] including research papers relating to Studies in Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 1983) comprising manuscript and typescript drafts and notes by Winnington-Ingram including on the Erines in the Oresteia , the Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound ; off-prints of articles; correspondence with other classicists including his students John Lavery and Michael Evans. Working notes, draft articles, off-prints and correspondence on the following themes: the works of Euripedes, notably Bacchae, Heracles, Hippolytus and Electra ; the works of Proclus, the works of Pindar and the works of Sophocles notably Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, The Trachiniae, Electra , and Philoctetes . General correspondence, 1939-1990. Papers relating to Plato including notes for Winnington-Ingram's inaugural lecture at King's College London 'The Unity of Plato's Phaedrus'. Draft lecture notes, including for 'Swan's Hellenic Cruises', 1973, lectures on Aristophanes and lectures on Greek drama for a lecture tour of USA and New Zealand. Teaching notes on Thucydides and the development of Greek prose. Unpublished articles on subjects including 'Revenge, justice and tragedy', 'The staging of the Peace of Aristophanes' and 'Greek stage conventions and their ancient critics.' Notebook containing notes on pupils and on Greek palaeography. Scrapbook containing press cuttings of reviews of Winnington-Ingram's publications, 1936-1949. Correspondence with Edward O. Symonds, a close personal friend of Winnington-Ingram, 1922-1949. Press cuttings of reviews by Winnington-Ingram.
System of arrangement
Arranged in the original order.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1904; Reader in Classics, Birkbeck College, 1934-1948; Professor of Classics, Westfield College, 1948; Professor of Greek Language and Literature, King's College London, 1953-1971; Director of Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 1964-1967; President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1959-1962; Chairman of the Board of Studies in Classics; President of the London Classical Society; honorary doctorate, University of Glasgow; died 1993. Publications: Mode in Ancient Greek Music (1936). Euripides and Dionysus (1948). Studies in Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Repository
Custodial history
Received Aug 2005.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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People and Organisations
- Aeschylus, c 525-456 BC, Greek playwright (Subject)
- Aristophanes, c445-c386 BC, Greek playwright (Subject)
- Euripides, c.480-406 BC, Greek playwright (Subject)
- Ingram, Reginald Pepys, Winnington-, 1904-1993, Professor of Greek Language and Literature (Subject)
- Pindar, c 522-443 BC, Greek lyric poet (Subject)
- Plato, 428/427-348/347 BC, ancient Greek philosopher (Subject)
- Proclus Lycaeus, 412-485, Greek Neoplatonist philosopher (Subject)
- Sophocles, c 496-406 BC, Greek playwright (Subject)
- Thucydides, 460-c 395 BC, Greek historian (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Classics (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
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Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery. Sources: Who's Who, 1969; King's College London Calendar, 1972-1973.