Item 63 - Notebook containing text and translation of Aeschylus' Choephori and Eumenides by R. C. Trevelyan

1 vol: hardback notebook, quarter bound (marbled paper and red leather). Lined paper with cuttings of printed text pasted in, additions and corrections in manuscript. Some pages have obviously been removed.
2 small loose sheets of manuscript.

Notebook labelled 'Choephoroe and Eumenides | R. C. Trevelyan, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, England'.

Trevelyan's translation of sections of Choephori and Eumenides, chosen by J. T. Sheppard for a performance of the Oresteia in Greek at Cambridge in 1920, are pasted on the left of each double page spread, the corresponding Greek sections pasted on the right. Trevelyan has filled in by hand parts omitted in the abridgement, as well as adding line numbers, expanding character names etc.

A few rough notes in pencil on the front paste-down and flyleaf and on the back paste down.

Aa couple of loose sheets with an MS impression of title page, 'The Eumenides | Or | The Kindly Goddesses' and following 'Dramatis Personae' found where the text of that play begins.

Notes on the life of St. Paul, with Greek quotations from New Testament, on verso of back pastedown (lined paper); other pages have obviously been removed.

• Ancient Greek
• English