Voyages d’Antenor en Grèce et en Asie, avec des notions sur l’Égypte
Subtitle: Manuscrit grec trouvé à Herculanum, Traduit par E.-F. Lantier. Avec figures. Tome premier
Publisher: De l’Imprimerie de Belin
Published: An VI de la République [1797]
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 372
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 3 vols. in 8vo. pp. XVI, 536. Signatures: [π]2 *6 A-X8. Original smooth mottled calf. Spines with red and green labels. Each volume has a frontispiece.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition (of some thirty in French, plus numerous translations) of this early historical novel, seemingly modeled on the immensely popular fictive ‘Voyage de jeune Anacharsis en Grèce’ of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1788, seven volumes and atlas), set in the fourth century B.C.). In his Avant-Propos, Étienne-François de Lantier (1734-1826) recounts his discovery of the ‘Antenor’ text, written on ‘un rouleau très-volumineux, dans l’idiòme grec,’ in the ruins of a house at Herculaneum, while searching instead for fragments of celebrated classical authors (Polybius, Sallust, Tacitus, Livy, et al.).  An English translation of 1799, also in 3 volumes, contains some ‘additional notes’ by the translator.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991008854569707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>