Year:
1729
Notes:
Posthumous publication (Boivin died in 1726). The Birds were translated in verse, Oedipus King in prose, with rhyming choral odes. See Grell, Chantal. Le Dix-huitième siècle et l'antiquité en France 1680-1789, (S.V.E.C., 331) vol.II, p.1223, and Delcourt, Marie. Etude sur les traductions des tragiques grecs et latins en France depuis la Renaissance. 1925, p.117, 167-170.
Publication details:
Published in Paris
Languages:
French
Ancient works on which this translation is based:
URI:
productions/translations/8787