Philippe-Ernest Legrand (2 September 1866. – 1 July 1953. Read « Philippe-Ernest », not Philippe-Emmanuel.) was a French Hellenist. An historian, philologist, archaeologist, epigrapher, his great work was the translation and editing of Histories (Herodotus), published in the Collection Budé, which is still a reference.
Career Philippe-Ernest Legrand studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1885 to 1888 and received a doctorate of Letters in 1898; One of his thesis was on Theocritus, and his complementary thesis was entitled .
He taught at the University of Lyon from 1891 until 1926. In 1902, he obtained the chair of Greek philology and epigraphy, and then, from 1920, that of Greek language and literature. He took early retirement in 1926, and settled in the Château de Culan to work on his edition of Herodotus.
He was also a member of the French School at Athens between 1888 and 1891 and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1933.
Work Besides Herodotus, he studied the work of many Greek poets, including the Bucolics. A specialist of literary history, he was also strongly interested in Menander, who was rediscovered at the beginning of the century thanks to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri as well as in new comedy. An incomplete list of authors on which he worked includes Sophron, Callimachus, Herondas, Leonidas of Tarentum, the pseudo-Theocritus, Bion of Phlossa, Moschos, and John Chrysostom.
Bibliography Editions and monographies
1898: Étude sur Théocrite, "Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome", fasc. LXXIX 1910: Daos : Tableau de la Comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle, Lyon, Fontemoing 1924: La Poésie alexandrine, Payot 1925–1927: Les Bucoliques grecs, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, Collection des Universités de France, 2 vol. 1925: Théocrite 1927: Pseudo-Théocrite, Moschos, Bion, divers 1932–1954: Édition et traduction de Hérodote, Histoires, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, Collection des Universités de France, 10 vol. 1932: Introduction 1932: Livre I: Clio 1936: Livre II: Euterpe 1939: Livre III: Thalie 1945: Livre IV: Melpomène 1946: Livre V: Terpsichore 1948: Livre VI: Erato 1951: Livre VII: Polymnie 1953: Livre VIII: Uranie 1954: Livre IX: Calliope 1966: Index analytique
Articles An extended list of articles by Philippe-Ernest Legrand can be found in .
References
External links Obituary on Persée