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Euripides’ Orestes, Foulis Edition

Euripides’ Orestes, Foulis Edition

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Title:
Euripides’ Orestes, Foulis Edition

Date of publication:

  • 1753

    • Binding:

  • contemporary calf

    • Editor:

  • Joshua Barnes

    • Publisher:

  • Robert & Andrew Foulis

    • Author:

  • Euripides

    • [Greek title] Orestes. Adjecta est ad finem versio Latina, ex editione J. Barnes […] Glasguae [Glasgow], in Aedibus Academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis 1753

    Euripides’ play recounts events following Orestes’ murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, in revenge for her murder of his father, Agamemnon. The text follows Joshua Barnes’ excellent Cambridge edition, first printed in 1694.
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    Condition & Materials

    8vo. pp. [ii], 159, [i]. Text in Greek with Latin translation following. Light toning to text. Contemporary calf, somewhat rubbed and worn, joints renewed. Old ownership signature to free endpaper partially erased.

    References

    Gaskell, Foulis, 254

    ESTC N9483.

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