Author:Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead

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Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (1849–1912)

English classicist and teacher, chiefly known for his translations into English of the plays of Aeschylus, written in metred verse. His language is often archaic and makes great use of eye rhymes and similar devices.

Works

• The House of Atreus, translation of The Oresteia, a Greek-tragedy trilogy written by Aeschylus in 450 B.C.
  • Introduction
  • Agamemnon
  • The Libation Bearers (The Choephori)
  • The Furies (The Eumenides)
• The Seven Against Thebes, translation of a Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus
• The Suppliants, translation of Hiketides, a Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus