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Aeschylus (525-456 BC)

The Oresteia / translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray. 1928

19.1 x 3.2 x 13.1 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1050341

Description

266 p.

Provenance

Presented by the translator to the Royal Library on occasion of the Silver Jubilee of George V in May 1935.
People involved

Creator(s)

Search the collection Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
(author)

Search the collection Gilbert Murray (1866-1957)
(translator)

Search the collection George Allen & Unwin : London
(publisher)

Acquirer(s)

Search the collection View the person page King George V, King of the United Kingdom (1865-1936)
Physical properties

Measurements

19.1 x 3.2 x 13.1 cm (book measurement (inventory))
Groupings
Category
Books
Object type(s)
printed & manuscript material
books
book: top edge gilt
Subject(s)
Language, Linguistics and Literature
Literature
Classical literatures
Classical Greek literature translated from Greek

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