Euripidis Tragoediae priores quatuor

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Euripidis Tragoediae priores quatuor

edited by Richard Porson and James Scholefield

(Cambridge library collection, . Classics)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Euripidis tragoediae priores quatuor : ad fidem manuscriptorum emendatae et brevibus notis emendationum potissimum rationes reddentibus instructæ

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Greek text and Latin notes; prefatory matters in Latin

Original t.p. reads: Euripidis tragoediae priores quatuor : ad fidem manuscriptorum emendatae et brevibus notis emendationum potissimum rationes reddentibus instructæ, edidit Ricardus Porson, recensuit suaque notulas subjecit Jacobus Scholefield

Reprint. Originally published: Cantabrigiæ : Typis ac sumtibus academicis excudit J. Smith, 1826

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Richard Porson (1759-1808) published editions of Euripides' Hecuba (1779), Orestes (1798), The Phoenician Women (1799) and Medea (1801) as individual volumes. They were collected and published together in 1826, some years after Porson's death, as Euripidis Tragoediae Priores Quatuor, edited by James Scholefield (1789-1853). The volume contains Porson's reconstructed Greek text of the four tragedies accompanied by a detailed Latin commentary. The volume is introduced by a Latin preface and a supplement expounding Porson's theories on the metrical rules followed by Attic poets. These theories about metre lay behind many of the choices of readings found in the critical text of each play. Porson's critical texts of the plays influenced generations of scholars, and his commentaries were widely studied, both in Latin and in English translation, for over a century. The volume remains a key work of classical scholarship.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Supplement to the preface
  • Text
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BB08518761
  • ISBN
    • 9781108011204
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    grc
  • Text Language Code
    grclat
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 542 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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