Cambridge Compositions
Greek and Latin

A volume of translations of English verse and prose into the classical languages, for use in teaching.

Richard Dacre Archer-Hind (Edited by), Robert Drew Hicks (Edited by)

9781108002554, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

516 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.93 kg

Original composition in classical languages was an important and much admired skill in the Victorian education system. In public schools and university Classics courses it was a key part of the curriculum, not only teaching the structure of the ancient languages themselves but also honing rhetorical skills. This 1899 anthology of selections from English literature translated into Greek and Latin prose and verse, includes contributions from a whole generation of late Victorian classical scholars at Cambridge: Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb and his successor as Regius Professor of Greek, Henry Jackson, James Adam, editor of Plato, Samuel Butcher, founder of the English Classical Association and President of the British Academy in 1909–10, a number of younger scholars and even one female lecturer. This would have been a model volume for Victorian students and remains useful today for those wanting to improve both comprehension and composition in the classical languages.

Preface
Translations into Latin verse
Translations into Latin prose
Translations into Greek verse
Translations into Greek prose
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]