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The Iliad, poem, with a discourse on Homer
Paris: Gregoire Dupuis, 1714
Contemporary calfskin binding
MISSING TWO PLANKS
Illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 inserts (out of 12) by Roettiers, Dien, Delamonce and Nattier engraved in intaglio by Chaufournier and Edelinck.
In this translation, published here for the first time, Antoine Houdar de La Motte (Paris, 1672-Paris, 1731) adapted The Iliad to the taste of his time, considering Homer's text unfit for the expectations of the early 18th century. . This text, which provoked the wrath of Anne Lefèvre Dacier, is at the origin of Homer's Quarrel, the last episode of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
This translation is framed by preliminary works (Discourse on the Iliad, L’Ombre d’Homère) and “postliminaires” (La Critique, L’Indien et le Soleil) by La Motte.
Tail cap missing. A few bites. 67460171
