Richard Claverhouse Jebb

A few years ago I thought I'd quickly read Republic. Oh dear! This has led to me having devoured everything Greek I could get my hands on. I am now reduced to reading the fragmented remains of obscure poems to feed my addiction.

The translation is old fashioned, though it does avoid the worst excesses of the period, but I think it's safe to say that the lyric poets do not represent the greatest flowering of Greek literature.

The great thing about this book is the scholarship. If you are show more interested in Bacchylides, and whether you have Greek or not, this is the book for you. I don't have Greek, so much of the book is beyond me, but you've got the text as it exists as well as an edited version with every change and reconstruction minutely detailed. There are even autotype photographs of parts of the papyrus. For everyone else there's a fascinating general introduction as well as individual intros to most of the poems.

I'd never seen truly perfect scholarship before but having read this I'll recognise it if I see it again. I'll also recognise some Greek letters... show less

The book consists of a series of lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1880s to the early 1890s. Mr Jebb writes with immense literary authority and skill and the chapters afford a brilliant summation of the value and legacy of the great Greek poets. "To the student who seeks to know what Greece and her literature means to the present age, but has no time for superfluous dates or facts or disquisitions, this work is indispensable."

Richard Bentley (/ˈbɛntli/; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Bentley was the first Englishman to be ranked with the great heroes of classical learning and was known for his literary and textual criticism. Called the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is credited with the creation of the English school of Hellenism, and introduced the first competitive written examinations in a show more Western university.

Works of Richard Bentley, collected by Alexander Dyce, 1836. v. 1–2. Dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and upon the fables of Aesop; also, Epistola ad Joannem Millium – v. 3. Sermons preached at Boyle's lecture; remarks upon a discourse of free-thinking; proposals for an edition of the Greek testament. show less

Edition: Second Edition // Descr: xxiv, 434 p. 17 cm. // Series: Call No. { 885 L98.08 1 } Being a Companion Volume to 'The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus' Edited with Notes by R.C. Jebb Contains Indexes. // //