ON EDITING AESCHYLUS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
Summary
The Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation by A. W. Veerall, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. London: Macmillan and Co. 1887.
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation by A. W. VERRALL, Litt. D., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. London: Macmillan and Co. 1889.
It will be admitted that the aim of a serious student should be to ascertain some part of truth ; and that if he undertakes to produce general editions of a Greek classic, such as those we are now to consider, his chief business must be really to discover what his author wrote and meant. In the preface to the Seven against Thebes, Dr. Verrall informs his readers that ‘ the Introduction and explanatory notes are in the main the product of independent work. ’ The nature of the independent work we shall examine by-and-bye; but we may allow that as a plan of study independent work is admirable enough. Only we have a right to expect the student, before presenting an edition, to have consulted and weighed the views of previous workers in his field. Else we must demand that he shall by his own labour have made himself master at least of all the materials that previous workers brought to bear.
To the materials that may serve for elucidation and emendation of Aeschylus a limit could hardly be defined.
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- On Editing AeschylusA Criticism, pp. 1 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1891
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