A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Mahaffy, John Pentland, LL.D., D.C.L., etc.

by John William Cousin

Mahaffy, John Pentland, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1839).—Scholar and writer on philosophy. Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilisation (1868), Prolegomena to Ancient History (1871), Kant's Critical Philosophy for English Readers (1871), History of Greek Literature (1880), Greek Life and Thought from Alexander to the Roman Conquest (1887), Empire of the Ptolemies (1896), The Silver Age of the Greek World (1906), etc.