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.
Philippe-Ernest Legrand studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1885 to 1888[1] and received a doctorate of Letters in 1898; One of his thesis was on Theocritus, and his complementary thesis was entitled Quo animo Graeci praesertim V° et VI° saeculis tum in vita privata tum in publicis rebus divinationem adhibuerint.
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[2] as well as in new comedy.
[2] 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.
"Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Philippe Legrand".