“Opéra (1674), in which he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by Euripides. This treatise on Alceste initiated the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes), which pitted supporters of the literature of Antiquity (the”
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