Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge Bibliography

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SIR ARTHUR WALLACE PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE (1873–1952)

The Attic Theatre: A Description Of The Stage And Theatre Of The Athenians, And Of The Dramatic Performances At Athens (1907 · 3rd Edition) · Arthur Elam Haigh (1855–1905)

ℹ️ "My purpose in this book has been to collect and piece together all the available information concerning the outward features and surroundings of the old Athenian dramatic performances ; in other words, to write a history of the Attic drama from the theatrical, as opposed to the literary, point of view." (Preface To The First Edition)

https://archive.org/details/3rdattictheatred00haiguoft/page/n7/mode/2up

Demosthenes And The Last Days Of Greek Freedom, 384-322 B.C. (1914)

ℹ️ "The author of the present volume has examined his subject with remarkable thoroughness. He has made himself acquainted not only with the sources but also with the modern literature. Nothing so characterizes him as the calmness with which he treats of controversial subjects. Although he continually cites the recent assailants of Demosthenes, the reader can gain from him no intimation of the violence of the attack. On the other hand, the author is no advocate of the Athenian statesman. It would be possible to make out a fair case in favor of the early policy of Demosthenes, as represented for example by the Megalopolitan and Rhodian orations; but Mr. Pickard-Cambridge decides that on the whole the proposals contained in these speeches were unwise. It is noteworthy, too, that the author frequently calls attention to mendacious statements of Demosthenes, sometimes preferring the authority of his political adversaries. He freely grants, further, that Demosthenes was sometimes unscrupulous in his political methods and that some of his personal traits were repellant. But in his judgment these defects were more than counterbalanced by the all-absorbing devotion to a great ideal." (George Willis Botsford, Political Science Quarterly, 06/1915)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028251357/page/n15/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/demostheneslastd00pick/page/n11/mode/2up

Memoir Of The Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1918)

https://archive.org/details/memoirofreverend00pickuoft/page/n5/mode/2up
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