Frederick Apthorp Paley
Frederick Apthorp Paley (14 January 1815 – 8 December 1888), was an English classical scholar.[1]
Life
Born at
Mgr Thomas Capel as professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman Catholic University at Kensington. This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe
, where he lived until his death.
Works
His most important editions are:
- Aeschylus, with Latin notes (1844-1847), the work by which he first attracted attention
- Aeschylus (4th ed., 1879)
- Euripides (2nd ed., 1872)
- Propertius, Carmina. The Elegies of Propertius, with English notes (2nd ed., 1872), London : Bell & Dandy
- Hesiod (2nd ed., 1883)
- Homer's Iliad (2nd ed., 1884)
- Sophocles' Philoctetes, Electra, Trachiniae, Ajax (1880)--all with English commentary and forming part of the Bibliotheca classica
- select private orations of Demosthenes (3rd ed., 1896–1898)
- Theocritus (2nd ed., 1869), with brief Latin notes, one of the best of his minor works
He possessed considerable knowledge of architecture, and published a Manual of Gothic Architecture (1846) and Manual of Gothic Mouldings (1845).
References
Citations
- ^ Phillimore 1911.
- required.)
- ^ "Paley, Frederick Apthorp (PLY833FA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Sources
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Phillimore, John Swinnerton (1911). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Collard, Christopher. "Paley, Frederick Apthorp (1815–1888)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21154. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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