Lewis Campbell

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.