JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY (1839- )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 394
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOHN PENTLAND See also:MAHAFFY (1839- )
, Irish classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Switzerland on the 12th of See also:July 1839
.
He received his See also:early See also:education in Switzerland and See also:Germany, and later at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, where he held the professorship of See also:ancient See also:history
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See also:Mahaffy, a See also:man of See also:great versatility, published numerous See also:works, some of which, especially those dealing with what may be called the See also:Silver See also:age of See also:Greece, became See also:standard authorities
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The following deserve mention: History of Classical See also:Greek Literature (4th ed., 1903 seq.); Social See also:Life in Greece from See also:Homer to See also:Menander (4th ed., 1903); The Silver Age of the Greek See also:World (1906); The See also:Empire of the See also:Ptolemies (1896) ; Greek Life and Thought from See also:Alexander to the See also:Roman See also:Conquest (2nd ed., 1896); The Greek World under Roman Sway from See also:Polybius to See also:Plutarch (189o)
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His See also:translation of Kuno See also:Fischer's Commentary on See also:Kant (1866) and his own exhaustive See also:analysis, with elucidations, of Kant's See also:critical See also:philosophy are of great value
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He also edited the See also:Petrie papyri in the See also:Cunningham See also:Memoirs (3 vols
.
1891-1905)
.
End of Article: JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY (1839- )
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