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.
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