Anne Dacier

Anne Dacier, born in Le Fèvre (* March 1654 in Preuilly -sur- Claise, Saumur, † August 17, 1720 in Paris) was a French translator and writer of Huguenot descent.

Life

Dacier was the daughter of the humanist Tanneguy Le Fèvre. Around 1670 she married and became a very short time afterwards widow. She returned to her father and learned in the lectures Protestants André Dacier know. When her father died in 1672, she went at the invitation of the editors of the classics spending ad usum Delphini to Paris.

1683 she married André Dacier and they settled in the following year in his hometown of Castres down. Mainly influenced by the theologian Eusèbe Renaudot converted the couple Dacier in 1685 to the Catholic faith. During this time, Daciers collaboration with Jean Chapelain, which they helped, among other things in his classic edition began. Here also their translations have been published over time. You are always characterized by accurate introductions and comments. Daciers work included classics such as Anacreon, Aristophanes, Plautus Titus Maccius, Publius Terentius Afer and Homer, but also Florus, Sappho, Hippocrates and Eutropius were translated by her.

At the Querelle des Anciens et Modernes she was involved on the part of the classics, as they against her friend Antoine de la Motte Houdar the inviolability of Homer defended 1714. This dispute was ended in 1715 by Claude Buffier, the arbitrage in his work Homère s gave both sides right and brought them together in the common worship of Homer. It is interesting perhaps to learn that Dacier and La Motte until April 5, 1716 personally met at a reception of the scientist Jean Baptiste Henri de Valincour where a toast to have been applied to Homer as the highlight of this meeting.

At the age of 66 years Anne Dacier died on August 17, 1720 in Paris.

Translations ( selection)

  • Les comédies de Terence (1688 )
  • Iliad d' Homère (1699 )
  • Odyssee d' Homère ( 1716)
  • Les poésies d' Anacreo et Sapho ( 1681)
  • Trois comédies de Plaute (1683 )

Works

  • Des Causes de la corruption du goût (1714 )
  • Homère défendu contre l' apologie you pére Hardouin ( 1716)
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