Aeneid School editions 1843-1920

In preparation for a project to edit notes from older school editions of the Aeneid for a commentary on the AP Latin selections (similar to the existing one for the Caesar selections) I have been assembling a collection of scanned Aeneid editions on Google Books and Archive.org. It’s not exhaustive, and consists mainly of those with notes in English (I also included Conington and Norden, which hardy fit the bill for school editions but are of great scholarly value). Still, I wanted to share the gleanings so far, and would appreciate any additions or comments. Frieze is of particular interest to me because of his very full Vergilian dictionary. Thanks, and happy holidays!

Anthon, Charles. The Aeneid of Virgil, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843. Google Books.

Chase, Thomas. Six Books of the Aeneid of Virgil. Philadelphia: Eldredge and Brother, 1871. Google Books.

Storr, F. Books I and II of the Aeneid of Vergil. Oxford: Rivington’s, 1878) Storr is listed as “Chief master of moderns subjects in Merchant Taylor’s School, and late assistant master in Marlborough College.” Google Books.

Gossrau, God. Guil. Publii Vergilii Maronis Aeneis. 2nd ed. Quedlinburgi: Godfredus Bassus, 1876. Archiv.org. Complete Aeneid with notes in Latin!!!

Howson, E.W. P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Libri II. et III. London: MacMillan and Co., 1881. Google Books.

Sidgwick, A. P. Vergili Aeneidos Liber II edited with English notes. Pitt Press Series. London: C.J. Clay, 1884. Google Books.

Frieze, Henry S. The Twelve Books of the Aeneid of Vergil with notes and a Vergilian Dictionary, 2nd ed. (New York: American Book Co., 1883). Google Books Internet Archive

Robertson, Rev. J. Vergil’s Aeneid: Book I with Examination Papers, Notes and Vocabulary. London: Joseph Boulton, 1883. Google Books.

Conington, John. The Works of Virgil with a Commentary, vol. II, Containing the First Six Books of the Aeneid. 4th ed., rev. by Henry Nettleship, London: Whittaker & Co., 1884. Google Books.

Wetherell, J.E. Vergil’s Aeneid: Book I. Toronto: Gage, 1884. Archive.org

Stephenson, H.M. P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Lib. IV. Edited for Schools. London: MacMillan & Co., 1888. Archive.org.

Papillon, T.L., and A.E. Haigh. Virgil, with an Introduction and Notes, vol. 2, notes (Oxford: Clarendon, 1892). Google Books.

Harper, William R. and Frank J. Miller, Six Books of the Aeneid of Vergil. New York: American Book Co., 1892. Archive.org (not a terribly good scan). Google Books with Eclogues

Walpole, Arthur S. P. rev. H.C. Johnson, Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber 1.New York: Macmillan, 1893. Google Books.

Comstock, David Y. Virgil’s Aeneid: Books I-VI, VIII, IX, and Selections from the Other Books. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1894. Comstock was Principal of St. Johnsbury Academy, Vermont. Google Books.

Greenough, J.B. and G.L. Kittredge. The Greater Poems of Virgil, vol. 1, The First Six Books of the Aeneid. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1895. Google Books.

Henderson, John, and E.E. Hagarty. Vergil’s Aeneid Book II. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, 1898. Archive.org.

Nettleship, Henry, and Wilhelm Wagner. Vergil’s Aeneid Books V. to XII. London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. With English Notes abridged from Conington. Google Books.

Warman, A.S. P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus. London: George Bell & Sons, 1899. Assistant Master at the Manchester Grammar School. He quotes frequently from Sidgwick, whose “notes have a clearness of power and stimulating interest,” but is pitched to “older boys.” Archive.org

Knapp, Charles. The Aeneid of Vergil. Books I-VI, Selections from VII-XII. Chicago: Scott, Foresman &Co., 1900. Google Books.

Page, T.E. The Aeneid of Vergil. Books I-VI. London: MacMillan & Co. 1902. Archive.org. 1967 reprint much better quality.

Henry S. Frieze, Vergil’s Aeneid Books I-VI, revised by Walter Dennison (New York: American Book Co. 1902) Google Books

Sidgwick, A.  P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904. Archive.org.

Bennet, Charles E. Virgil’s Aeneid: Books I-VI. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1905. Google Books.

Carter, Jesse Benedict. The First Six Books of Virgil’s Aeneid. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1906. Google Books.

Ladewig, Th., Karl Julius Heinrich Schaper,  P. Deuticke, and  Paul Jahn, Vergils Gedichte, Bd. 2, Buch I-VI der Äneis. 13th ed. (Berlin : Weidmann, 1912).

Jerram, C.S. Virgil: Aeneid 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. Archive.org. Good for breaking up text into chunks.

Carruthers, Adam, and J.C Robertson, Virgil, Aeneid: Book 1.1-510. Toronto: Gage & Co., 1917. Archive.org.

Carruthers, Adam, and J.C. Robertson, Virgil: Aeneid: Book 2.1-505. Toronto: Gage & Co., 1918. Archive.org.

Fairclough, H.R.  and Seldon L. Brown, Virgil’s Aeneid Books I-VI with introduction, notes and vocabulary. Chicago: Benj. H. Sanborn, 1919 (orig. 1908, reprinted with corrections 1912, 1919, 1920). Google Books

Norden, E. Aen. 6. Leipzig 31926. 1903 edition at Archive.org

Ancient Greek Grammars Online

Perseus digitized some Greek grammar resources early on (see below), but since then more has become available in .pdf form from thanks to Google Books and Archive.org. This survey for some reason does not include scans of books. One need in my view is for a good searchable school grammar of ancient Greek. The searchable ones currently available are of the more systematic variety, and are potentially bewildering to students and non-expert readers. Smyth and his 3048 chapters is not for everybody. The best choice in English in my opinion would be Goodell (see below). This spring DCC will be embarking on a project to digitize it properly, making it searchable, and integrating it into the notes of our forthcoming Greek commentaries. This will be done with crucial assistance from Bruce Roberson at Mount Allison University, and Rigaudon.

Frontispiece of Greek grammar, William Camden, 1598, via museumoflonson.org.uk

Another problem with the existing Greek grammar digitizations at Perseus is that the indices have not apparently been included. The index, as anyone who uses the print versions of these books will be aware, is the primary way that we consult these works, and not having the index amounts to a serious impediment to usability. Our Goodell will be browse-able via the index. And we are almost finished with a modification of the Perseus XML of Allen & Greenough’s New Latin Grammar that includes the index. We hope to make an index-browseable A&G available early in the new year.

Ok, here are some Greek grammars. Let me know your favorites, and if you think I am misguided in my love of Goodell.

Babbit, Frank Cole. A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek (New York: American Book Co., 1902). Google Booksarchive.org

Buttman, Alexander. Grammar of the New Testament Greek (Andover: Warren F. Draper, 1891) at archive.org

Brugmann, Karl. Griechische Grammatik 3rd edition (Münich: Beck, 1900) at archive.org, and Google Books

Goodell, Thomas Dwight. A School Grammar of Attic Greek (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903) Google Books. Archive.org (better scan)

Goodwin, William W. Greek Grammar, revised and enlarged (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1896). Google Books.

Hadley, James. Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges, revised and in part rewritten by Frederic De Forest Allen (New York: American Book Company, 1912) Google Books.

Meyer, Gustav. Griechische Grammatik, 2nd ed. (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1886) at archive.org and at Google Books (and another).

Monroe, D.B. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect (Oxford: Clarendon, 1891) at archive.org.

These items are already available at Perseus:

Goodwin,William Watson.  Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (London, Melbourne, Toronto 1889) Goodwin’s Moods and Tenses

Gildersleeve,Basil Lanneau. Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes (New York 1900)

Smyth, Herbert Weir. A Greek Grammar for Colleges (1920) and (also at Philologic Chicago)

Kühner, Raphael, Friedrich Blass, and Bernhard Gerth. Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov, Hannover und Leipzig, 1904).