Year:
1870
Notes:
Prose translation by Emile Pessonneaux of Sophocles' extant tragedies, reprinted in 1872, 1874, 1877, 1879, 1881 (Paris: Charpentier). Paul Claudel owned a revised 1904 edition (unlisted in other library catalogues). In 1941, Jean Wiener composed a song on Pessoneaux's translation of Antigone 781-800: 'amour, indomptable amour' (Bibliothèque Nationale notice n°FRBNF39721202). Sources: BNF catalogue général, SUDOC, Worldcat, Bazaud, Maryse. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de Paul Claudel, p.149 http://books.google.com/books?id=XC31MxJZvvQC&pg=PA149 (02/12/2011), Delcourt, Marie. Etude sur les traductions des tragiques grecs et latins en France depuis la Renaissance. 1925, p.228-231.
Publication details:
Paris: Charpentier
Languages:
French
Ancient works on which this translation is based:
URI:
productions/translations/8854