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Anne Dacier
b. circa 1651, Preuilly-sur-Claise, France; d. 1720/22, Paris
The foremost classical scholar of her day, Anne Dacier was educated by her father, the humanist Tanneguy Lefèbvre. Upon her father's death in 1672, she moved to Paris, where she became an editor of the Delphin series of classical authors. In 1683, she married another of the Delphin editors, André Dacier. Among her works are translations of Sappho, Aristophanes, Anacreon, Plautus, and Homer; her annotated prose editions of the Iliad and the Odyssey made her famous throughout Europe.
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