Frederick Apthorp Paley

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Name Frederick Paley
Died December 8, 1888, Bournemouth, United Kingdom Education St John's College, Cambridge Books A Manual of Gothic Mouldings, A Manual of Gothic Architecture, The Hippolytus Of Euripid, The Medea Of Euripides, The Andromache of Euripid

Frederick Apthorp Paley (14 January 1815 – 8 December 1888), was an English classical scholar.

Life

Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire, he was the grandson of William Paley, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1838). His conversion to Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846, but he returned in 1860 and resumed his work as "coach," until in 1874 he was appointed by Mgr Thomas Capel as professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman Catholic University at Kensington. This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe, where he lived until his death.

Works

His most important editions are:

Aeschylus, with Latin notes (1844-1847), the work by which he first attracted attention

Aeschylus (4th ed., 1879)

Euripides (2nd ed., 1872)

Propertius, Carmina. The Elegies of Propertius, with English notes (2nd ed., 1872), London : Bell & Dandy

Hesiod (2nd ed., 1883)

Homer's Iliad (2nd ed., 1884)

Sophocles' Philoctetes, Electra, Trachiniae, Ajax (1880)--all with English commentary and forming part of the Bibliotheca classica

select private orations of Demosthenes (3rd ed., 1896-1898)

Theocritus (2nd ed., 1869), with brief Latin notes, one of the best of his minor works

He possessed considerable knowledge of architecture, and published a Manual of Gothic Architecture (1846) and Manual of Gothic Mouldings (1845).

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