Classical hero in scholarly writings around university (7)
I believe the answer is:
theseus
'classical hero' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'scholarly writings around university' is the wordplay.
'scholarly writings' becomes 'theses' (thesis is a kind of writing. I am not sure about the 'scholarly' bit.).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'university' becomes 'u' (abbreviation for university).
'theses' placed around 'u' is 'THESEUS'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for theseus that I've seen before include "Shakespeare's Duke of Athens" , "Minotaur-slaying hero" , "classic hero" , "Athenian king" , "He slew the Minotaur" .)