 The final phase of the Quarrel, in the 1710s, mainly centered on how Homer’s Iliad should be translated. The two most prominent players were Anne Dacier and the abbé Houdar de la Motte. Dacier, a distinguished Hellenic scholar, produced her prose translation of the Iliad in 1711; based on this work, Houdar, who knew little Greek, published a radically shortened poetic version in 1714. In his preface, Houdar represented the Modern camp by daring to criticize Homer, and in the main text, he not only cut out parts of the Iliad that he considered too repetitive or long-winded, such as the description of Achilles’s shield, but he also removed the sections in which the manners of the Ancients appeared too uncouth for his taste. In contrast, Anne Dacier advocated for a more faithful translation and showed less regard for the French sense of politeness. She struck against the Moderns in her polemic On the Corruption of Taste (1714), deploring the effeminate morals and literature of her contemporaries, in contrast to the heroic ones of Antiquity.