Richard Porson (25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808) was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law. The Greek typeface Porson...

Porson is an influential typeface in the Greek alphabet based on the handwriting of the English classicist Richard Porson. Porson was a classicist with...

and Richard Bentley Porson Kidd, who was rector of Potter Heigham church among other duties in Norwich, Norfolk. The last of these had a son, Richard Hayward...

not apply to iambic trimeter in Greek comedy. It was formulated by Richard Porson in his critical edition of Euripides' Hecuba in 1802. The law states...

one, and remain undivided ... This epistle from Leo was considered by Richard Porson to be the "strongest proof" of verse inauthenticity. In response, Thomas...

founded in honor of classical scholar Richard Porson and was first awarded in 1817. Winners are known as "Porson prizemen". 1817: George James Pennington...

and French to ensure that they would circulate widely. At Cambridge, Richard Porson worked on the missing lower right corner of the Greek text. He produced...

by the Lanston Monotype Company. (Font details) GFS Porson, originally created by Richard Porson from Cambridge, at the end of the 18th century. (Font...

including scholars such as Richard Dawes, Jeremiah Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd...

Timbs, John (1862), Lives of Wits and Humourists: R. Brinsley Sheridan. Richard Porson. Rev. Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook. James and Horace Smith, R. Bentley...