Porson, Richard 1759-1808

Overview

Works:	703 works in 1,525 publications in 7 languages and 6,911 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Tragedies (Drama) Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Academic theses History Interviews Anecdotes Biographies Mythological plays
Roles:	Author, Editor, Attributed name, Other, Translator, cnm, Former owner, Creator, Annotator, Honoree, Dedicator
Classifications:	PA3973, 882.01

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Most widely held works about Richard Porson

English classical scholarship : historical reflections on Bentley, Porson, and Housman by C. O Brink( Book )
Recollections of table-talk of Samuel Rogers by Samuel Rogers( Book )
In Euripidis Hecubam, Londini nuper publicatam, diatribe extemporalis. Composuit Gilbertus Wakefield, A.B by Gilbert Wakefield( )
Richard Porson : a biographical essay by M. L Clarke( Book )
Tracts and miscellaneous criticisms of the late Richard Porson, esq., Regius Greek professor in the University of Cambridge by Richard Porson( Book )

The life of Richard Porson, M.A. : professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 by J. S Watson( Book )
Literary anecdotes and contemporary reminiscences of Professor Porson and others. From the manuscript papers of the late E.H. Barker by Edmund Henry Barker( Book )
The devil's walk : a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge( Book )
The correspondence of Richard Porson, formerly regius professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge by Richard Porson( Book )
Richard Porson, 1759-1808 by D. L Page( Book )
A specimen of an intended publication, which was to have been entitled, A vindication of them that have the rule over us, for their not having cut out the disputed passage, 1 John V. 7, 8 from the Authorised version ; being an examination of the first six pages of Professor Porson's IVth letter to Archdeacon Travis, "Of the Mss. used by R. Stephens." by Francis Huyshe( )
The library of Richard Porson by P. G Naiditch( Book )
A short account of the late Mr. Richard Porson, M.A., Greek professor of Trinity College, Cambridge : with some few particulars relative to his extraordinary talents by Stephen Weston( Book )
Seminario di studi su Richard Porson : Università degli studi di Salerno, 5-6 dicembre 2008 by Seminario di studi su Richard Porson( Book )
Klassische Studien in England : historische Reflexionen über Bentley, Porson und Housman by C. O Brink( Book )
Great scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and others by Henry James Nicoll( Book )
Beiträge zur Lex Porsoniana; Inaugural-Dissertation by Franz Xaver Bill( Book )
The Devil's walk by Samuel Taylor Coleridge( Book )
Recollections of the table-talk of Samuel Rogers by Samuel Rogers( )
The Life of Richard Porson : professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 by J. S Watson( Book )

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Most widely held works by Richard Porson

Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis, in answer to his defence of the three heavenly witnesses, I John v 7 by Richard Porson( )

33 editions published between 1790 and 2018 in English and held by 326 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ricardi Porsoni adversaria by Richard Porson( Book )

33 editions published between 1812 and 1814 in 3 languages and held by 163 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ricardi Porsoni Notæ in Aristophanem by Richard Porson( Book )

28 editions published in 1820 in 5 languages and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Phōtiou tou patriarchou Lexeōn synagōgē by Photius( Book )

20 editions published between 1822 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This work, first published in 1822, was edited by Peter Paul Dobree (1782-1825) who had been entrusted with the literary remains of the eminent classical scholar Richard Porson (1759-1808). It contains the text of a ninth-century Greek lexicon compiled by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. The lexicon was a tool for Byzantine Greeks studying the works of ancient authors, whose language and vocabulary differed significantly from the day-to-day language spoken in the Byzantine Empire. The lexicon offers the modern scholar a wealth of information regarding ancient works that Photius had access to but are no longer extant. The edition is based on a transcription, made by Porson, of the only remaining manuscript of the lexicon: Codex Galeanus, in Trinity College Library, Cambridge. Volume 2 contains entries for the letters pi to omega. The edition has served as an important source for the study of Byzantine lexicography

Euripidis tragoediae priores quatuor : ad fidem manuscriptorum emendatae et brevibus notis emendationum potissimum rationes reddentibus instructae by Euripides( Book )

20 editions published between 1802 and 1851 in Greek, Ancient and Latin and held by 117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hecuba by Euripides( Book )

46 editions published between 1797 and 1851 in 7 languages and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A translation of Euripides' play, "Hecuba," in which Hecuba grieves over the loss of a daughter and takes revenge for her fallen son

The devil's walk : a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge( Book )

11 editions published between 1830 and 1832 in English and held by 109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Phœnissæ of Euripides, from the text, and with a translation of the notes, of Porson; critical and explanatory remarks, original and selected; illustrations of idioms from Matthiæ, Jelf. Dawes, Viger, etc.; examination questions, and copious indexes by Euripides( )

10 editions published between 1830 and 1859 in Greek, Ancient and Greek, Modern and held by 105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recollections of the table-talk of Samuel Rogers by Samuel Rogers( Book )

3 editions published in 1856 in English and held by 91 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tracts and miscellaneous criticisms of the late Richard Porson by Richard Porson( Book )

17 editions published between 1815 and 2012 in English and held by 89 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Adversaria : notae et emendationes in poetas Graecos by Richard Porson( Book )

17 editions published between 1812 and 1982 in 4 languages and held by 82 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medea by Euripides( Book )

24 editions published between 1801 and 1858 in 5 languages and held by 80 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Euripides' masterwork centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea? whom he marries and eventually abandons. Authoritative Rex Warner translation

Euripidou Phoinissai = The Phoenissae of Euripides by Euripides( Book )

23 editions published between 1755 and 1848 in 4 languages and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eloisa en dishabille: being a new version of that lady's celebrated epistle to Abelard by Lounger( Book )

6 editions published between 1784 and 1822 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Euripidis tragoediae priores quatuor by Euripides( Book )

13 editions published between 1826 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Richard Porson (1759-1808) published editions of Euripides' Hecuba (1779), Orestes (1798), The Phoenician Women (1799) and Medea (1801) as individual volumes. They were collected and published together in 1826, some years after Porson's death, as Euripidis Tragoediae Priores Quatuor, edited by James Scholefield (1789-1853). The volume contains Porson's reconstructed Greek text of the four tragedies accompanied by a detailed Latin commentary. The volume is introduced by a Latin preface and a supplement expounding Porson's theories on the metrical rules followed by Attic poets. These theories about metre lay behind many of the choices of readings found in the critical text of each play. Porson's critical texts of the plays influenced generations of scholars, and his commentaries were widely studied, both in Latin and in English translation, for over a century. The volume remains a key work of classical scholarship

Euripidis Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae et Medea. Ad fidem manuscriptorum emendatae et brevibus notis emendationum potissimum rationes reddentibus instructae. In usum studiosae iuventutis by Euripides( Book )

19 editions published between 1824 and 1825 in 4 languages and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Hecuba of Euripides, from the text, and with a translation of the notes, preface, and supplement of Porson; critical and explanatory remarks, original and selected; illustrations of idioms from Matthiæ, Dawes, Viger, &c. &c. A synopsis of metrical systems; examination questions; and copious indexes by Euripides( Book )

14 editions published between 1826 and 1873 in Greek, Ancient and English and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Orestes by Euripides( Book )

18 editions published between 1798 and 1848 in 4 languages and held by 57 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that, starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy

The correspondence of Richard Porson, M.A. formerly regius professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge by Richard Porson( Book )

2 editions published in 1867 in English and held by 55 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Aeschyli Tragoediae by Aeschylus( Book )

15 editions published between 1827 and 1853 in 4 languages and held by 55 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The classical scholar and philologist Gottfried Hermann (1772-1848), professor of classics at Leipzig, was especially influential in the fields of Greek grammar and poetical metres. He was among the leading scholars who argued that an accurate knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages was crucial for understanding the intellectual life of the ancient world, and should be the chief aim of philology, the study of the development of languages. Only seven of the plays of Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, survive in complete form, and Hermann's was the first critical edition to contain all of them. It was published in Leipzig in two volumes in 1852, four years after his death. Volume 1 contains the texts of all of Aeschylus' tragedies and of Prometheus Bound, of which the authorship is attributed to Aeschylus, and an appendix of notes

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