The funeral oration of Pericles. Translated by E. H. Blakeney

Edward Henry Blakeney (1869-1955), classical scholar and poet. Blakeney was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1891 and M.A. in 1895. He served as headmaster from 1895 to 1918; in the same years he was an Assistant Master at Winchester College, and from 1929 to 1931 he lectured in English Literature at the University of Southampton. In addition to publishing several volumes of poetry, he produced editions and translations of classical Latin and Greek authors, including Herodotus and Tacitus, as well as editions of works by John Milton.