Adversaria

Volume 1 of the collected notes of Peter Paul Dobree, one of the most influential and talented English classical scholars.

Peter Paul Dobree (Author), James Scholefield (Edited by)

9781108015844, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 July 2010

660 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.7 cm, 0.83 kg

One of the most talented disciples of the illustrious comparative philologist Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree (1782–1825) is commemorated in this two-volume edition of Adversaria, consisting of his prolific notes on Greek and Latin literature, history, and philology. Dobree left an enduring impression upon English classical scholarship, despite his premature death shortly after accepting the Regius professorship of Greek at Cambridge. Edited by his successor at Cambridge, James Scholefield, the Adversaria attest to Dobree's scholarly probity and precision, offering insights into a mind whose major achievements undoubtedly still lay ahead. Volume 1 (1831) includes Dobree's praelection on a Pseudo-Lysian funeral oration, which gained him the Regius chair, as well as his notes on Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, the rhetoricians, and numerous other subjects. Dobree was honoured among 'the first rank of English textual scholars' for his accuracy, rigour, and literary sensitivity - qualities demonstrated in these volumes.

Praefatio
1. Praelectio in Pseudo-Lysiae Orationem funebrem
2. Historica: Notae in Herodotum
In Thucydidem
In Xenophontem
In Diodorum Siculum
On Bishop Marsh's Horae Pelasgicae
On Mitford's History of Greece
3. Philosophica: Notae in Platonem
In Aristotelem
In Theophrastum
In Plutarchum
4. Rhetorica: Notae in Antiphontem
In Andocidem
In Lysiam
In Isocratem
In Isaeum
In Dinarchum
In Lycurgum
In Aeschinem
In Demosthenem
In Sophistas
5. Miscellanea: Notae in Fabulas Aesopicas
In Phalaridis Epistolas
In Dionysium Halicarnassensem
In Pausaniam
In Lucianum
In Longinum
In Achillem Tatium
In Aristidem
In Themistium
In Novum Testamentum
6. Philologica: De Lexicis Graecis
Notae in Julium Pollucem
In Moerin
In Hesychitum
In Timaeum
In Harpocrationem
In Photium
In Suidam
In Scapulum
In Bekkeri Anecdota Graeca
On Matthiae's Greek Grammar
Indices.

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