Aeschyli Tragoediae Quae Supersunt

Volume IV, part 2, of Aeschylus' Tragedies in Greek, with Latin commentary by one of England's most eminent early classicists.

Samuel Butler's four-volume edition of Aeschylus' Tragedies draws upon the monumental 1663 Latin commentary of Thomas Stanley. Based upon Stanley's notes and translations, Butler's Greek and Latin edition distils the early English scholarship on Aeschylus. This second part of the fourth volume contains attributed fragments and an index.Aeschylus' Tragedies are here presented in the original Greek, with Latin translations, notes, scholia, and readings assembled by one of the eminent classical scholars of the nineteenth century, Samuel Butler (1774–1839). Based upon the monumental seventeenth-century commentary edition by Thomas Stanley, and drawing upon scholarship published in the intervening century, Butler's four volumes of the complete plays represent an important synthesis of early critical responses to Aeschylus. The history of Greek scholarship in England – from the labours of one its first and most influential interpreters, Stanley, to the efforts of one of its most respected teachers, Butler – is amply demonstrated in this set of works. This second part of the fourth volume contains Aeschylus' vita and fragments, together with a complete index to the edition. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School and later bishop of Lichfield, Butler is central to histories of classical scholarship and education in England.