Falernian grapes (Uvae Falernae). An inaugural address on Horace by R. S. Conway, and six short papers by members of the Leeds and District Branch of the Classical Association; presented to the Association by its Branch at the general meeting held in the University of Leeds on January 4th-6th, 1917. Edited and with a postscript, by W. Rhys Roberts
Cambridge: printed at the University Press, 1917. 8vo, pp. [8], 79, [1]; original gray printed wrappers; spine with small chips out, the binding loosening; text clean. With contributions by Rhys as well as George William Butterworth; Robert Seymour Conway; Alice Mary Croft (a schoolteacher at Leeds); John Rickards Mozley; Kate Pickard; and, Aubrey Charles Price. Rhys (1858 - 1929), was "professor of Greek at University College, Bangor, 1884-1904, and professor of classics in the University of Leeds, 1904-22. He was considered an authority on the history of Greek literary criticism and published annotated editions of some of the works of the critics (Longinos, Dionysios of Halicarnassos, Demetrios). He was a Litt.D. of Cambridge, and also received the degrees of LL.D. (S. Andrews) and D.Litt. (Wales, 1921) honoris causa" (Dictionary of Welsh Biography). Item #70584
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