JOHN PENTLAND

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• JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY (1839- )

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