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    André Dacier

    André Dacier(1651–1722)

    French classical scholar and translator associated with the influential Dacier circle of learned humanists. His translations and commentaries helped shape how early modern Europe read Greek philosophy and biography, balancing philological care with moral instruction.

    Read by Thoreau (see Thoreau's Reading) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)

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    Lives of Pythagoras and Hierocles

    The Dial's edition: 1707

    A learned Pythagorean 'life-and-teaching' package: biographical framing in addition to emblematic symbols and the moralized Golden Verses, presented as a handbook of philosophical piety and disciplined self-formation.

    Full textSurvives at Houghton Library

    Read by Thoreau (see Thoreau's Reading) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)

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