1. Virginia Woolf, ‘On not knowing Greek’, in The Common Reader (London, 1925), p. 39.
2. On the ‘Great Controversy’ see F. J. Levy, Tudor Historical Thought (San Marino, 1967), pp. 106–9;
3. Gary W. Jenkins, John Jewel and the English National Church (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 114–31.
4. P. S. Allen, Erasmus: Lectures and Wayfaring Sketches (Oxford, 1934), p. 153. On Erasmus’s contribution to Greek studies and the impact of Lucian see Goldhill, pp. 14–107.
5. Desiderius Erasmus, The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 142 to 297 (Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 2), translated by R. A. B. Mynors and D. R Thomson (Toronto, 1975), p. 112. See also The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 993 to 1121 (CWE, vol. 7), translated by R. A. B. Mynors and annotated by Peter G. Bietenholtz (Toronto, 1987), p. 19; The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1252 to 1355 (CWE, vol. 9), translated by R. A. B. Mynors and annotated by James M. Estes (Toronto, 1989), p. 319.