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Hard cover, 8vo, in two volumes, in original red cloth blocked with titles in bronze-gold to front board and titles to spine, with a decorative black border across head and foot. In English and Greek. viv, 466pp. and ix, 419 pp. Printed R & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Yellow end papers, text provided with side notes. This third edition was preceded by the second of 1877-79 and first edition of 1873-76. It is based upon the Author's independent study, as well as lectures to Clifton College. Translations and critical content interspersed with passages in the original Greek. Chapters include: The Periods of Greek Literature, Mythology, Achilles and the Iliad etc., The Women of Homer, Hesiod, Parmenides and Greek Philosophical Poetry, Empedocles, The Gnomic Poets, The Satirists, The Lyric Poets, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles (Vol. I) and Greek Tragedy and Euripedes, The Fragments of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, The Fragments of the Lost Tragic Poets, Ancient and Modern Tragedy, Aristophanes, The Comic Fragments, Herodas, The Idyllists, The Anthology, Hero and Lyander, The Genius of Greek Art, Conclusion and Appendix (Vol. 2).**CONDITION: Very Good. Vol. 1 lightly cocked. Boards show minor wear and very minor fraying at head and foot of spines. Spine a bit darkened with titles somewhat dulled. Hinges are in order. Remains clean and sound. A few pencil notes at rear. **The accomplished English Victorian Author, translator, essayist, historian, poet and Oxford graduate John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), who was married and with children, nonetheless discussed his homosexuality in his "Memoirs," begun in 1889. See: A.K. Regis, "The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds : a Critical Edition" (London: Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.) Watson 1502.
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