E.F.Lantier: Viagens de Antenor pela Grecia e Asia con nocoes sobre o Egypto.Paris 1838 First edition in Portuguese of one of the most classical Philhellenic work,in small 8vo,complete in four volumes,with four frontis (one finely colored),contemporary leather over boards,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition The work is a full translation in Portuguese of Les Voyages d'Anténor, originally written by the French author Étienne-François de Lantier in 1798. Lantier wrote it to compete with the famous Travels of Anacharsis the Younger by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. Both novels became the two standard works for the rise of Philhellenism all around the European nations.As Philhellenism became a popular vague during and after the Revolution,these works started to be translated even in the less common European languages, as here in Portuguese,to be accessible in a wider local public. While the book is written as a fictional novel, the story of a young man named Antenor traveling through the ancient Greek world, it was intended to be educational also. Lantier based his descriptions on the writings of ancient Greek authors like Herodotus and Pausanias, making it a scholarly adventure that was very popular with students and the educated elite in Portugal and Brazil.The Portuguese intellectual elite remained for generations deeply connected to the Neoclassical values,the idea that ancient Greece is the ultimate model for law, art, and citizenship persisted.