Author:Richard Porson

Richard Porson
(1759–1808)

Richard Porson

Works

• Notae in Xenophontis anabasin (1786)
• Appendix to Toup (1790)
• Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis, in answer to his defence of the three heavenly witnesses, I John v.7 (1790)
• Aeschylus (1795)
• Euripides (1797–1802)
• Collation of the Harleian manuscript of the Odyssey (1801)
• Adversaria (1812)
• Tracts and Criticisms (1815)
• Aristophanica (1820)
• Notae in Pausaniam (1820)
• Photii lexicon (1822)
• Notae in Suidam (1834)
• The Correspondence of Richard Porson, formerly regius professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge (1867), edited by Henry Richards Luard

As editor

• Emendationes in Suidam et Hesychium: et alios lexicographos graecos (1790), in 2 vols. by Jonathan Toup

Works about Porson

• "Porson, Richard," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Porson, Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Porson, Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• An account of the last illness of Richard Porson, A.M (1808) by James Savage
• A narrative of the last illness and death of Richard Porson, Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge (1808) by Adam Clarke
• The Life of Richard Porson, M. A. (1861) by John Selby Watson