{"id":22004,"date":"2013-09-06T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=22004"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:31:12","slug":"davis-henry-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/davis-henry-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rev. Henry Davis <\/b>together with Henry Cary (1804-1870) and George Burges (1786-1864) in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century published a translation of all of Plato\u2019s works in six volumes. Davis\u2019s translation of <em>Critias<\/em>\u00a0was recently\u00a0included in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-critias-atlanticus-n\/\">The Critias Atlanticus<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>His translation of both the <i>Critias<\/i> and <i>Timaeus<\/i>\u00a0is now available<sup>(a)<\/sup> as a free ebook. The Reverend gentleman displayed little Christian Charity when in the Introduction he described the translation of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/taylor-thomas\/\">Thomas Taylor<\/a> as <i>\u201cuncouth, obscure,<\/i> <i>un-English and often extremely erroneous.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=TXkXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA411&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=4#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=TXkXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA411&amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;cad=4#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Henry Davis together with Henry Cary (1804-1870) and George Burges (1786-1864) in the 19th century published a translation of all of Plato\u2019s works in six volumes. Davis\u2019s translation of Critias\u00a0was recently\u00a0included in The Critias Atlanticus. His translation of both the Critias and Timaeus\u00a0is now available(a) as a free ebook. The Reverend gentleman displayed little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2536,2535,2509,2530],"class_list":["post-22004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-burges","tag-henry-cary","tag-henry-davis","tag-the-critias-atlanticus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66230,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions\/66230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}