Entries Tagged as 'Ancient Greece'

March 20, 2008

Item of the Day: Pye’s Poetics of Aristotle (1792)

Full Title:
A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle, By Examples Taken Chiefly from the Modern Poets.  To Which is Prefixed, A new and corrected edition of the Translation of the Poetic.  By Henry James Pye, Esq.  London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly.  M.DCC.XCII.
COMMENTARY.  Chap. I. Note I.
The Epopee and Tragedy, as also comedy and dithyrambics, [...]

February 29, 2008

Item of the Day: Epistles of Phalaris, 1749 (cont’d)

Full Title: The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin. London: Printed for R. Francklin, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCXLIX.
(See previous post of August 22, 2007 for the earlier section of the “Preface” to The Epistles of Phalaris).
[...] As Greece was in [...]

September 27, 2007

Item of the Day: A Dissertation on Antient Tragedy (1766)

In: The Tragedies of Sophocles, translated from the Greek; (With A Dissertation on Antient Tragedy.) By the Rev. Thomas Francklin . . . A New Edition, carefully revised and corrected. Vol. I. London: Printed for T. Davies, in Russell-Street, Covent-Garden, 1766.
A DISSERTATION
ON
ANTIENT TRAGEDY.
WHILST the taste, genius, and knowledge of the ancients, have been universally felt [...]

June 6, 2007

Item of the Day: First Philippic Oration of Demosthenes (1757)

Full Title: Orations of Demosthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historical Notes. Vol. I. London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand, MDCCLVII.
ORATION III.
FIRST PHILIPPIC.
 
The ARGUMENT.
THE Rapidity of his Conquests, the numerous Forces he commanded, and his own enterprising Spirit, had long since made Philip of Macedon an Object of much [...]

June 5, 2007

Item of the Day: Orations of Demosthenes Translated by Mr. Francis (1757)

Full Title: Orations of Demosthenes, Translated by the Rev. Mr. Francis, with Critical and Historical Notes. Vol. I. London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand, MDCCLVII.
AN ESSAY
ON THE POLITICAL STATE
OF ANCIENT GREECE.
PERHAPS, never any one Form of Government appeard among Mankind, of which there was not some Resemblance among the States of Greece. An [...]