Thucydide. Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse. Texte grec. Édition classique, précédée d'une notice littéraire par E. Talbot

Eugène Talbot (1814-1894), classical scholar, translator. Talbot earned a doctorate in letters in Paris in 1850. He taught rhetoric at the Lycée Condorcet (formerly Lycée Fontanes) and later held a position at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Talbot was a prolific author of educational works, including manuals and abridged histories of Greek and Latin literature. He also produced critical editions and French translations of classical authors, notably Xenophon and Terence, and in 1868 edited Cicero's De Republica. In 1891, he was elected president of the Société des études historiques.