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Oeuvres complettes d'Isocrate: auxquelles on a joint quelques discours analogues à ceux de cet orateur, tirés de Platon, de Lysias, de Thucydide, de Xénophon, de Démosthene, d'Antiphon, de Gorgias, d'Antisthene & d'Alcidamas. Traduites en françois par M. l'abbé Auger, Vicaire Général du diocese de Lescar, de l'Académie des sciences, belles-letters & arts de la ville de Rouen, ancien professeur d'eloquence dans la même ville

Typology: Translation | Language: French | Place of publication: Paris | Publisher: Chez de Bure, Fils aîné, Théoph. Barrois jeune, quai des Augustins | Year: 1781

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Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Athanase Auger (1734-1792), classical scholar and translator. Auger produced French translations and editions of a wide range of Greek prose authors, particularly the Attic orators and historians, including Demosthenes, Aeschines, Isocrates, Lysias, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Xenophon. In addition to classical authors, he translated selected works of the Church Fathers, notably Basil of Caesarea and John Chrysostom, as well as Latin prose, including orations of Cicero. Auger served as Professor of Rhetoric at the Collège de France and held other scholarly and teaching appointments in Paris. A member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he also authored writings on education and civic instruction, influenced by Rousseau, including a treatise on educational reform composed on the eve of the Estates-General, and took a moderate part in the early phase of the French Revolution.

Translation of Thuc. 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), along with translations from Lysias, Plato, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Gorgias.

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