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Lewis CampbellLewis Campbell (September 3, 1830 - October 25, 1908), British classical scholar, was born at Edinburgh. His father, Robert Campbell, R.N., was a first cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and Glasgow and Oxford universities, He was fellow and tutor of Queen's College, Oxford (1855-1858), vicar of Milford, Hants (1858-1863), and professor of Greek and Gifford lecturer at the University of St Andrews (1863-1894). In 1894 he was elected an honorary fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. As a scholar he is best known by his work on Sophocles and Plato. His published works include: - Sophocles (2nd ed., 1879)
- Plato, Sophistes and Politicus (1867)
- Theaetetus (2nd ed., 1883)
- Republic (with Benjamin Jowett, 1894)
- Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett (with EA Abbott, 1897)
- Letters of B. Jowett (1899)
- Life of James Clerk Maxwell (with W Garnett, new ed., 1884)
- A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers (1891)
- Religion in Greek Literature (1898)
- On the Nationalisation of the Old English Universities (1901)
- Verse translations of the plays of Aeschylus (1890)
- Sophocles (1896)
- Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare (1904)
- Paralipomena Sophoclea (1907).
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Campbell, Lewis Campbell, Lewis
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