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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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 The essays, which include six previously unpublished papers, cover a variety of topics, including Latin verse and Greek history.

Product details

• Authors: A. W. Verrall, A.w. Verrall
• Assisted by: M. A. Bayfield (Editor), J. D. Duff (Editor), Duff J. D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107643000
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64300-0
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation