Eight essays from a Cambridge seminar held in 1996. Contributors are: Christopher Stray (The First Century of the Classical Tripos, 1822-1922); Robert Todd (Henry Sidgwick and the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Decisive Years 1866-69); Pat Easterling (The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play); Claire Breay (Women and the Classical Tripos 1869-1914); Judith Raphaely (Nothing but gibberish and shibboleths: the compulsory Greek debates 1870-1919); Mary Beard (The Invention of 'Group D': An Archaeology of the Classical Tripos 1879-1984); David Gill (Winifred Lamb and the Fitzwilliam Museum); John Crook and Joyce Reynolds (The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club).