Adversaria
Notae et Emendationes in Poetas Græcos quas ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni

Textual notes on Greek plays and poetry by the influential Cambridge professor Richard Porson, published posthumously in 1812.

Richard Porson (Author), James Henry Monk (Edited by), Charles James Blomfield (Edited by)

9781108015608, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

362 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

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.

Praefatio editoruom
1. Praelectio in Euripidem, recitata in Scholis Publicis Cantabrigiae 1792. Graecarum Literarum Professionis adeundae causa
2. Observationes variae
3. Notae et emendationes in Athenaeum
4. Notae et emendationes in Aeschylum
5. Notae et emendationes in Sophoclem
6. Notae et emendationes in Euripidem
7. In incertos tragicos
8. In Aristophanis fragmenta
9. In ceteros comicos
10. Emendationes in Stobaeum
11. Emendationes in diversos poetas
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]