Anne Dacier

Dacier, Anne, née Lefebvre, (c.1651-1720). The greatest French woman Hellenist, the most celebrated Hellenist of her day, and a world-class philologist whose editions remained authoritative for decades. She was the daughter and student of the noted humanist and classicist Tanneguy Le Fèvre. She married another of his students, André Dacier. She was among the directors of the famous ad usum Delphini collection of classical texts [see Dauphin]. She edited and/or translated, among others, Homer, Sappho, Aristophanes, Anacreon, and Plautus. Her Des causes de la corruption du goût (1714) was a major defence of the ancients in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes.

— Joan Dejean