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Books: Battle of the books The Invention of Jane by Mary Beard, Harvard; pounds 23.50: Eminent Greek scholar Jane Harrison, admired by Virginia Woolf, led a revolution in classical studies. Ruth Padel discovers that behind her success was a Strong woman

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000730
Author:Ruth Padel

The sober landscape of classical studies was revolutionised at the turn of the last century by the hot new sciences of anthropology and archaeology. Classicists began re-interpreting the antiquity they knew about from texts, by relating it to rituals of newly described "primitive peoples", or newly discovered physical objects. Over a period of 30 years, antiquity got a whole new look, wilder and darker. It became exoticised, primitivised, ritualised.

In the vanguard of all that was Jane Harrison, born in 1850. In the first wave of women stud-ents at Cambridge, she did classics at Newn-ham ...

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