Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship

Originally published one year after his death, the book collects a selection of articles by the respected Classicist Arthur Verrall.

A. W. Verrall (Author), M. A. Bayfield (Edited by), J. D. Duff (Edited by)

9781107643000, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 May 2014

382 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg

Originally published one year after his death, the book collects a selection of articles by the respected Classicist Arthur Verrall (1851–1912). The essays, which include six previously unpublished papers, cover a variety of topics, including Latin verse and Greek history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Classics or the history of Classical scholarship.

Preface
1. Tyrtaeus I
2. Tyrtaeus II
3. Herodotus on the dimensions of the pyramids
4. The site of primitive Athens
5. On a lost word in Homer
6. Death and the horse
7. The paeans of Pindar and other new literature
8. The bell and the trumpet
9. The calendar in the Trachiniae of Sophocles
10. Aphrodite Pandemos and the Hippolytus of Euripides
11. Euripides, Andromache 655 f.
12. Euripides, Helena 962-974
13. The three actors
14. Notes on Aristophanes' Knights
15. The verse-weighting scene in the Frogs of Aristophanes
16. On a certain defect in 'Longinus'
17. The Latin Sapphic
18. The metrical division of compound words in Virgil
19. A metrical jest of Catullus
20. On a metrical practice in Greek tragedy
21. The name Lamia in Horace
22. A vexed passage in Horace
23. An interpolation in Horace
24. Stare in Horace, Sat. 1 9. 39
25. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice in the fourth Georgic
26. Philippi and Philippi
27. Statius, Silvae 11 7. 8 ff.
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]