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Entry | L'Histoire de Thucydide, de la guerre du Péloponèse, continuée par Xénophon. De…

L'Histoire de Thucydide, de la guerre du Péloponèse, continuée par Xénophon. De la traduction de N. Perrot, sr d'Ablancourt

Typology: Translation | Language: French | Place of publication: Paris | Publisher: Augustin Courbe | Year: 1662

Greek Text: no

Content: Complete Work

Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (1606-1664), classicist and translator, member of the Académie française from 1637 to 1664. In addition to Thucydides, he translated Julius Caesar, Cicero, Homer, Lucian of Samosata, and Plutarch. His translation of Thucydides was authoritative in France for a long time, although it was considered not very faithful to the Greek text. CERL

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