In this three-volume work on tragedy, published between 1839 and 1841, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, in
Ernest Curtius' History of Greece was published in German between 1857 and 1867. Ward's translation of 1868–1873 made this seminal work available to the Victorian reading public.
