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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDERICK HENRY MARVELL BLAYDES (1818-1908)  ,
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English classical scholar, was born at Hampton Court Green, on the 29th of September 1818, being a collateral descendant of Andrew Marvell, the satirist and friend of Milton . He was educated at St Peter's school, York, and Christ Church, Oxford . He was Hertford scholar in 1838, took a second class in literae humaniores in 184o, and was subsequently elected to a student-
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ship at Christ Church . In 1842 he took orders, and from 1843 to 1886 was vicar of Harringworth in Northamptonshire . During a long
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life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of the Greek dramatists . His
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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
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Dublin, Ph.D. of the university of Buda Pest and a
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fellow of the royal society of letters at Athens . He died at
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Southsea on the 7th of September 1908 . His
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works include :—Aristophanes: Comedies and Fragments, with critical notes and commentary (188o–1893) ; Clouds, Knights, Frogs., Wasps (1873-1878) ; Opera Omnia, with critical notes (1886); Sophocle,; Oedipus Coloneus, Oedipus Tyrannus and
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Antigone (in the Bibliotheca Classica, 1859) ;
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Philoctetes (1870), Trachiniae (1871), Electra (1873), Ajax (1875), Antigone (1905) ; Aeschylus:
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Agamemnon (1898), Choephori (1899), 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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