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| 003 | $ UK-LoRAA | ||
| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng $h grc |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Aeschylus |
| 240 | 1 | 1 | $a [Works. $l English. $s Potter.] |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | $a The Tragedies Of Aeschylus; Translated By R. Potter. A New Edition. |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Prometheus Chain'd |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Supplicants |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Seven Chiefs Against Thebes |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Agamemnon |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Choephoræ |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Furies |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Oresteia |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Persians |
| 260 | # | # | $a Oxford, $b Printed For M. Bliss, and R. Bliss. $c 1808. |
| 300 | # | # | $a xl, 364 p.; $c 212 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Half-t., t.p.] - Preface - To Mrs. Montagu - [Text; colophon]. |
| 508 | # | # |
$a The printer is named on the half-title and in the colophon: 'N. Bliss, Printer, (Oxford)'. The translator's dedication to Mrs. Montagu (1778) is reprinted here. |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a Potter's translation of Aeschylus's verse dramas was first published in 1777, and with notes in 1778; and the present publication reprints the Preface with the date of 1777 and the dedication with the date of 1778. The collection consists of verse translations of Prometheus Chain'd; The Supplicants; The Seven Chiefs Against Thebes; Agamemnon; The Choephoræ; The Furies; The Persians. The plays will have provided subjects suitable for history-paintings. Potter afterwards published translations of Pindar, Euripides and Sophocles. |
| 561 | # | # | $a 5 March 1810: Purchase agreed on recommendation of John Flaxman (see RA Council Minutes IV, 199-200). Acquired by 1815 - see Thomas Stothard's MS. 'Catalogue of the RA Library', shelf B.2.6. [RAA MIS/ ST/1]. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Tragedies Of Aeschylus', spine lettered '1808'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Mythology, Greek |
| 653 | # | # | $a Greeks - Persians - Greece - Salamis - Iran - History - 5th century B.C. |
| 655 | # | # | $a Greek drama - Greek poetry - Greece |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Translations from Greek - Translations into English - English drama - 18th century - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Potter $e translator |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bliss $e printer |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bliss $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bliss $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Montagu $e dedicatee |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1821: J-2-06. |