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Entry | Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse de Thucydide. Traduction nouvelle, avec une…

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse de Thucydide. Traduction nouvelle, avec une introduction et des notes, par E.-A. Bétant

Typology: Translation | Commentary | Language: French | Place of publication: Paris | Publisher: Librairie Hachette et Cie | Year: 1863

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Content: Complete Work

Élie-Ami Bétant (1803-1871), classicist and teacher. Bétant served as secretary to Ioannes Antonios Kapodistrias, the president of Greece, from 1827 to 1829. He taught Greek at the preparatory gymnasium, and from 1848 to 1871, he taught at the newly established high school in Geneva. He held several political positions in the city of Geneva. He translated Herodotus and Thucydides and published the Lexicon Thucydideum (1843-1847). DHS