Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt by Samuel Butler

Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt by Samuel Butler

Aeschylus' Tragedies are here presented in the original Greek, with Latin translations, notes, scholia, and readings assembled by one of the eminent classical scholars of the nineteenth century, Samuel Butler (1774 1839). Based upon the monumental seventeenth-century commentary edition by Thomas Stanley, and drawing upon scholarship published in the intervening century, Butler's four volumes of the complete plays represent an important synthesis of early critical responses to Aeschylus. The history of Greek scholarship in England from the labours of one its first and most influential interpreters, Stanley, to the efforts of one of its most respected teachers, Butler is amply demonstrated in this set of works. This second part of the fourth volume contains Aeschylus' vita and fragments, together with a complete index to the edition. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School and later bishop of Lichfield, Butler is central to histories of classical scholarship and education in England.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was born at Bingham, Nottinghamshire, and educated at Shrewsbury and St. Cambridge's St. John's College. In his later years, he became interested in Shakespearean research and authored Iliad and Odyssey translations. His autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903, is his most famous work.

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ISBN 13	9781108012980
ISBN 10	1108012981
Title	Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt
Author	Samuel Butler
Series	Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt 4 Volume Paperback Set
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2011-02-17
Number of pages	744
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