This edition by Richard Porson (1759 1808) of Euripides' plays was published posthumously in 1820. It contains the Greek text of Euripides' four most popular plays: Hecuba, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and Medea, which had previously been published as individual titles. Each play is preceded by a list of manuscript witnesses and accompanied by a running Latin commentary, containing detailed text-critical, exegetical and philological notes. The volume is introduced by a Latin preface and supplement which expound Porson's theories on the metrical rules followed by Attic poets. Porson explains...
This edition by Richard Porson (1759 1808) of Euripides' plays was published posthumously in 1820. It contains the Greek text of Euripides' four most ...
This work, first published in 1822, was edited by Peter Paul Dobree (1782 1825) who had been entrusted with the literary remains of the eminent classical scholar Richard Porson (1759 1808). It contains the text of a ninth-century Greek lexicon compiled by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. The lexicon was a tool for Byzantine Greeks studying the works of ancient authors, whose language and vocabulary differed significantly from the day-to-day language spoken in the Byzantine Empire. The lexicon offers the modern scholar a wealth of information regarding ancient works that Photius had...
This work, first published in 1822, was edited by Peter Paul Dobree (1782 1825) who had been entrusted with the literary remains of the eminent classi...
This work, first published in 1822, was edited by Peter Paul Dobree (1782 1825) who had been entrusted with the literary remains of the eminent classical scholar Richard Porson (1759 1808). It contains the text of a ninth-century Greek lexicon compiled by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. The lexicon was a tool for Byzantine Greeks studying the works of ancient authors, whose language and vocabulary differed significantly from the day-to-day language spoken in the Byzantine Empire. The lexicon offers the modern scholar a wealth of information regarding ancient works that Photius had...
This work, first published in 1822, was edited by Peter Paul Dobree (1782 1825) who had been entrusted with the literary remains of the eminent classi...