APGRD id
8861
Title
Euripide, traduction nouvelle (1884)
Year
APGRD Notes
Prose translation by Leconte Delisle. First volume: Hékabè, Orestès, Les Phoinissiennes, Médéia, Hippolytos, Alkèstis, Andromakhè, Les Suppliantes, Iphigénéia à Aulis; second volume: Iphigénéia chez les Taures, Rhèsos, Les Troiades, Les Bakkhantes, Les Hèrakleides, Hélène, Iôn, Héraklès furieux, Elektra, Le Kyclôps. A number of these plays were reprinted in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with standardised titles, such as Les Bacchantes in 1948, and Iphigénie à Aulis, Les Troyennes, Hécube, Andromaque, Electre, Oreste, Iphigénie en Tauride and Hélène in 2007 in a collection of Leconte de Lisle's translations of Tojan tragedies entitled Mourir pour Troie edited by Annie Collognat. Sources: BNF catalogue général, for a discussion of Leconte de Lisle's translations, see Delcourt, Marie. Etude sur les traductions des tragiques grecs et latins en France depuis la Renaissance. 1925, p.218-252. Both volumes are available online, volume 1 http://archive.org/stream/lecontedelislee00eurigoog#page/n7/mode/2up and volume 2 http://archive.org/stream/lecontedelislee01eurigoog#page/n9/mode/2up (06/06/12).
Publication details
Paris: A. Lemerre, 2 vols.
Languages
French
Ancient works on which this translation is based
- Alkestis (Euripides)
- Andromache (Euripides)
- Bacchai (Euripides)
- Herakleidai (The Children of Heracles) (Euripides)
- Cyclops (Euripides)
- Elektra (Euripides)
- Hekabe (Hecuba) (Euripides)
- Helen (Euripides)
- Herakles (Euripides)
- Hippolytos (Euripides)
- Ion (Euripides)
- Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides)
- Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
- Medea (Euripides)
- Orestes (Euripides)
- Rhesos (Euripides)
- Suppliant Women (Euripides)
- Phoinissai (The Phoenician Women) (Euripides)
- Trojan Women (Euripides)
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/translations/8861