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Entry | Selections from Herodotus and Thucydides, with notes, by R. H. Mather

Selections from Herodotus and Thucydides, with notes, by R. H. Mather

Typology: Commentary | Language: English | Place of publication: Boston | Publisher: J. Allyn | Year: 1872

Greek Text: yes

Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Richard Henry Mather (1834-1890), classical scholar and Professor of Greek at Amherst College. Mather was educated at Amherst, where he served successively as tutor of Greek, Assistant Professor, Professor of Greek and German from 1864, and later Professor of Greek and lecturer on sculpture from 1878. He edited several Greek textbooks for collegiate use, many of which went through multiple editions. His principal publications include editions of Herodotus and Thucydides, Sophocles (1873), and Aeschylus (1883).

Greek text of selected passages from Herodotus, toghether with Thuc. 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), with notes.

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