Lewis Campbell (3 September
1830 – 25 October 1908), British
classical
scholar, was born in Edinburgh
, Scotland
.
His father, Robert Campbell,
R.N., was a
first cousin of
Thomas
Campbell, the
poet.
He was educated at the
Edinburgh Academy, and Glasgow
and Oxford
universities, He was fellow and tutor of Queen's College,
Oxford
(1855–1858), vicar of Milford
, Hampshire (1858–1863), and professor of Greek at the University of St
Andrews
(1863–1894). In 1894, he was elected an honorary fellow
of Balliol College,
Oxford
. From 1894-96 he gave the Gifford Lectures,
which were published in 1898.
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).
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