Management Cas Iliad

encouraged incursions into the realms of the ‘intellectual’ and the ‘metaphysical’. A comparable trend towards the ‘rational’ in poetry emerged from the second phase 162 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1711–16) which centred on the translation of the Iliade (1699) by the Hellenist, Madame Dacier (c.1651–1720). In 1714, Houdar de la Motte (1672–1731) produced an abridged version which corrected Homer’s ‘implausibilities’ and ‘improved’ the text to suit modern taste. Opposed by Mme Dacier and her admirers