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nants of Alcaeus, Sappho and Corinna have been collected in a critical text by J. M. 

 Edmonds. 1 



Editions and commentaries. In the preparation of new editions Greek writers have 

 of late received most attention. Theognis' poems have found a new interpreter in 

 Prof. Hudson Williams, 2 who contends that they are a miscellaneous collection by 

 various pre- Alexandrine writers, and that Theognis was their editor rather than their 

 author. The dramatists are represented by a posthumous work of the late W. G 

 Headlam on Aeschylus' Agamemnon, 3 the choicest part of which is a highly finished 

 translation into rhyming English metres; and by Mr. B. B. Rogers' editions of the 

 Acharnians, K nights and Lysistrata of Aristophanes, 4 whose English renderings follow 

 the original Greek metres. Of the Greek historians Herodotus and the new author 

 from Oxyrhynchus have been the chief objects of study. The former has received an 

 up-to-date historical commentary by Messrs. How and Wells; 5 the latter has been anno- 

 tated in an authoritative manner by Ed. Meyer. 6 Among the new works on Greek 

 philosophy we may note a separate edition and translation of the fragments of Heraclitus 

 by Diels. 7 The study of Greek literary critics has been pushed forward actively. The 

 Poetics of Aristotle are presented in quite a new light by Prof. Margoliouth, 8 who argues 

 that the obscurities of the text are for the most part intentional. This remarkable thesis 

 is based on a comparison of Aristotle's avowedly technical treatises, and on a study of 

 the Syriac and Latin translations. Another elaborate piece of work is contained in Prof 

 Rhys Roberts' edition of the treatise On Composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 9 

 Of the new editions of Latin authors it may suffice to mention a greatly improved text of 

 Ammianus Marcellinus by Mr. C. U. Clark, 10 and a revised issue of Dr. Rice Holmes' 

 authoritative commentary on. Caesar's Bellum Gallicum. 11 



Translations. The wide diffusion of interest in the ancient classics is clearly betokened 

 by the greatly increased number of translations into various modern languages. In 

 addition to the works of this kind mentioned in the previous paragraph, special attention 

 is due to the Loeb Classical Library of texts and translations, 12 the Oxford Library of 

 Translations 13 and the Oxford Translation of Aristotle. 14 In each of these cases the versions 

 have been prepared by thoroughly competent scholars. Interest also attaches to Prof. 

 Gilbert Murray's free renderings of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Euripides' Iphi- 

 genia in Tauris^ and to Prof. Platt's translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon into biblical 

 English 16 a promising experiment. We may also welcome Mr. Cyril Bailey's" new and 

 more accurate version of Lucretius. 



Criticism. The" Homeric question "has again become a fruitful source of controversy. 

 The main question at issue is whether the poems in their present form represent the 

 work of one man. The " Unitarians" have been mainly engaged in detailed criticism 

 of their opponents' theories; 18 the " separatists " have replied by revising their arguments 



1 The new fragments of Alcaeus, Sappho and Corinna (Cambridge and London, 1909). 



2 Theognis (London, 1910). 



3 Cambridge, 1910. 



4 London, 1910-11. 



5 A Commentary on Herodotus (Oxford, 1912). 



6 Theopomp's Ilellenika (Halle, 1909). 



7 Hcrakleitos von Ephesos (Berlin, 1909). 



8 The Poetics of Aristotle (London, 1911). 



9 London, 1910. 



10 Berlin, 1910 sqq. 



11 Caesar's Conquest of Gaul (Oxford, 1911). 



12 Kd. T. E. Page and W. H. D. Rouse (London & New York, 1912 sqq.). 



13 Clarendon Press, 1908 sqq. 



14 The latest three vols. are the Historia Animalium, by U'Arcy W. Thompson, De Gen- 

 erationc Animalium, by Prof. Platt, and De Partibus Animalium, by W. Ogle (Clarendon 

 Press, 1910-11). 



15 London, Allen, 1910-11. 



16 London, Grant Richards, 1911. 



17 Oxford, 1910. 



18 Andrew Lang, The, World of Homer (London, 1910); C. Rothe, Die Ilias als Dichtung 

 (Paderborn, 1910); F. M. Stawell, Homer and the Iliad (London, 1909); A. Shewan, The Lay 



