Adversaria: Notae et Emendationes in Poetas Graecos quas ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni

Richard Porson

Adversaria: Notae et Emendationes in Poetas Graecos quas ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 October 2010
Pages
362
ISBN
9781108015608

Adversaria: Notae et Emendationes in Poetas Graecos quas ex Schedis Manuscriptis Porsoni

Richard Porson

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.

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