The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

One of the decadent Greek novelists. An erotic novel of a conventional type.

ÆLFRIC. c. 1006.

THE CATHOLIC HOMILIES. Ed. with tr. B. Thorpe, Ælfric Soc., 1844-46.

LIVES OF SAINTS. Ed. Text and Tr. W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1881.

Eminent Saxon prelate, one of the most learned of his time. His works, upwards of eighty in number, have been republished by the Ælfric Soc. (London, 1844-46).

ÆSCHINES. B.C. b. 389, d. 314. Greek orator.

THE ORATIONS OF ÆSCHINES AGAINST CTESIPHON AND DEMOSTHENES DE CORONA. Tr. with notes, Andrew Portal, 1755.

Only three orations of A. are extant, and they relate to charges of 'malversation and corruption against Demosthenes'. The 'De Corona of D.' (330 B.C.) is in reply to Æschines.

ÆSCHYLUS. b. 525, d. 456 B.C. The first of the three great tragic poets of Greece.