Janus: Papers of Edward Ernest Sikes

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Papers of Edward Ernest Sikes

Title	Papers of Edward Ernest Sikes
Reference	GBR/0275/Sikes
Creator	Edward Ernest Sikes (1867-1940)
Covering Dates	1887–1910 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	5 vols.; paper
Repository	St John's College Library

Content and context

Classicist. Born in Halstead, Kent in 1867, Sikes entered St John's College in 1886. He graduated in 1889 with a first class in the Classical Tripos, winning the Browne medal for a Latin Ode. He was elected to a Fellowship in 1891 and served his College as tutor (1900-25) and President (1925-37). During the academic year 1926-7 he was at Harvard University as a Visiting Professor.

Sikes translated and edited a number of classical texts, and wrote on Greek and Roman poetry and Lucretius. He was President of the University Philological Society (1920), and, with his brother Francis Henry Sikes, donated a collection of British molluscs to the Natural History Museum, London. He married Mabel Katherine Garrett in 1901.

4 volumes of manuscript notes for lectures on Martial, Greek and Latin verse compositions.

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St John's Library/Sikes contains:

Manuscript notebook. Contains notes on Martial's life, manuscripts of his works, the epigram, the deity of the emperors, a scheme of lectures, Domitian, religion, Martial's general characteristics, town and country life, and notes takes from H.P. Dodd's 'The epigrammatists' (1870). Also contains some loose papers, including a printed list headed 'Selections from Martial'.
176p; paper.

1890–1910

Manuscript notebook entitled 'Martial select epigrams'. Contains notes on Matrial's Epigrams books I and II.
c.200p; paper.

1890–1910

Manuscript notebook. Contains notes on Martial's Epigrams books III-V.
195p; paper.

1890–1910

Manuscript notebook. Contains notes on Martial's Epigrams books VI-XII. A note at the end reads 'Lectures finished March 6th 1895, Nov. 26 1898, May 1909'.
215p; paper.

1895–1909

W.86

Manuscript notebook 'Greek and Latin Verse Composition'. pp.1-34: English original (or first line of) and Greek or Latin translation (with initials of translator) on opposite pages. pp.35-: Greek or Latin translations with name or initials of translator (mostly Sikes). Translations dated 1887-1906.
138p, c.30 loose pages; paper.

1887–1906