Bøger af Richard Porson

Adversaria: Notae Et Emendationes In Poetas Graecos, auctore Porson, Richard, anno MDCCCXII editus, est opus quod plenam habet annotationem et emendationem in poetas Graecos. Hoc opus in quattuor voluminibus constat, quorum singulus continet emendationes et annotationes in poetas Graecos, inter quos sunt Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes et alii. Porson, qui fuit classicus Britannicus, notum habet pro emendationibus in scriptores Graecos, et hoc opus est exemplum suae eruditionis. Adversaria est opus quod omnibus classicis et Graecis studiosis utile est, et quod adhuc in auctoritate est.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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.