Bothe Fridericus Henricus Editor (1 results)

8vo. (21 x 12.5 cm). pp.88. Contemporary prize binding of marbled calf, school crest stamped in blind to upper cover, sides ruled in gilt, smooth spine ruled in gilt and stamped with gilt lyre devices, green morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers. Text in Greek. Light foxing to title-page, some light rubbing along joints, generally a very good copy in a handsome leather binding. Fridericus Henricus Bothe (17711855), or Friedrich Heinrich Bothe, was a German poet, translator, and classical philologist. He was known for his editions of ancient Greek and Latin authors, such as Sophocles, Anacreon, and Homer Agamemnon, by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus, is the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, originally produced in 458 BC. The drama chronicles the long-awaited return of King Agamemnon to Argos after the Trojan War and his subsequent murder by his vengeful wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus.…