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BLAYDES, See also:FREDERICK See also:HENRY MARVELL (1818-1908) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Hampton See also:Court See also:Green, on the 29th of See also:September 1818, being a See also:collateral descendant of See also:Andrew Marvell, the satirist and friend of See also:Milton. He was educated at St See also:Peter's school, See also:York, and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford. He was See also:Hertford scholar in 1838, took a second class in literae humaniores in 184o, and was subsequently elected to a student-See also:ship at Christ Church. In 1842 he took orders, and from 1843 to 1886 was See also:vicar of Harringworth in See also:Northamptonshire. During a See also:long See also:life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of the See also:Greek dramatists. His See also:editions and philological papers are remarkable for bold conjectural emendations of corrupt (and other) passages. His distinction was recognized by his being made an honorary LL.D. of See also:Dublin, Ph.D. of the university of Buda Pest and a See also:fellow of the royal society of letters at See also:Athens. He died at See also:Southsea on the 7th of September 1908. His See also:works include :—Aristophanes: Comedies and Fragments, with See also:critical notes and commentary (188o–1893) ; Clouds, Knights, Frogs., Wasps (1873-1878) ; See also:Opera Omnia, with critical notes (1886); Sophocle,; See also:Oedipus Coloneus, Oedipus Tyrannus and See also:Antigone (in the Bibliotheca Classica, 1859) ; See also:Philoctetes (1870), Trachiniae (1871), See also:Electra (1873), See also:Ajax (1875), Antigone (1905) ; See also:Aeschylus: See also:Agamemnon (1898), Choephori (1899), See also:Eumenides (190o), Adversaria Critica in Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (189o) ; in Tragicorum Graec. Frig. (1894), in Aeschylum (1895), in Varios Poetas Graecos et Latinos (1898), in Aristophanem (1899), in Sophoclem (1899), in Euripidem (1901), in Herodotum (1901); Analecta Comica Graeca (1905) ; Analecta Tragica Graeca (1906).

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