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Thucydides: Book VII. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, etc. By J. F. Stout and F. G. Plaistowe

Typology: Commentary | Language: English | Place of publication: London | Publisher: W. B. Clive and Co. | Year: 1891

Greek Text: yes

Content: Book 7

Francis Gifford Plaistowe (ca. 1868-1943), classical scholar. Educated at Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow and Librarian of Queens' College. For The University Tutorial Series – a late 19th- and early 20th-century educational collection aimed at preparing students for university examinations – Plaistowe co-edited and translated works by Thucydides, Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Livy, and Horace.

Joseph Frankland Stout (1867-1932), classical scholar. Educated at Cambridge, where he was tutor for many years. For The University Tutorial Series – a late 19th- and early 20th-century educational collection aimed at preparing students for university examinations – Stout translated works by Thucydides, Herodotus, Euripides, Cicero, Livy, and Tacitus.

Introduction, Greek text, and commentary on Book 7. It differs from Stout 1891, which includes a translation but no Greek text and commentary.

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