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Adversaria: Notae Et Emendationes in Poetas Græcos Quas Ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni

Adversaria: Notae Et Emendationes in Poetas Græcos Quas Ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni

Blomfield, Charles James
Monk, James Henry
Porson, Richard

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1108015603
ISBN13: 9781108015608
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Oct 31 2010
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: Latin
Edited from Porson's notebooks by two of his Cambridge colleagues, Adversaria was published posthumously in 1812. It includes Porson's prelection (delivered when he was a candidate for the Regius Professorship of Greek) and notes and emendations to his monumental edition of Euripides as well as to editions of other Greek writings. Among his contributions to nineteenth-century classical scholarship was the discovery of a rule relating to the position of words in Greek trimeters which is still known as Porson's law. His scholarly style, which focused on metre and language rather than interpretation, set the standard for classical textual criticism at Cambridge for several decades. One of Porson's legacies was the design of a Greek typeface based on his handwriting, commissioned from Richard Austin by Cambridge University Press. 'Porson Greek' was widely used in British publications for well over a century.

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