Adversaria

Volume 2 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)

9781108015851, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 July 2010

440 pages
21.6 x 2.5 x 14 cm, 0.56 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 2 (1833) includes Dobree's notes on Greek literature - including the works of Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes - as well as his comments on such major Latin writers as Cicero, Livy, Horace, and Juvenal. Dobree was honoured among 'the first rank of English textual scholars' for his accuracy, rigour, and literary sensitivity - qualities demonstrated in these volumes.

Notae in Homerum
In Hesiodum
In Theognidem
In Simonidem
In Pindarum
In Theocritum
In Moschum
In Callimachum
In Fabricii Bibliothecam Graecam
In Aeschylum
In Sophoclem
In Euripidem
In Aristophanem
In Menandrum
In Philemonem
In Comparationem Men. et Phil.
In Athenaeum
In Stobaeum
In Anthologiam Graecam
In Opuscula Ruhnkeniana
In Bentleii Epistolam ad Millium
On Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris
In Scriptores Latinos: In Ciceronem
In Livium
In Quinctilianum
In Tacitum
In Terentium
In Horatium
In Juvenalem
Appendix: In Platonem
In Euripidem
Addenda et corrigenda
Indices
Addenda in Adversaria.

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