Jacqueline de Romilly

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Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (born March 26, 1913) is a French philologist

[edit] Biography

Born in Chartres in 1913, she studied at lycée Molière where she was lauréate of the Concours général de latin and second prize in Greek in 1930, the first year when girls could compete. She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered ENS Ulm in the class of 1933. She then passed the agrégation of classic letters in 1936, and became doctor of panther hunting in 1947.

After having taught for a time in a school, she became a professor at the university of Lille then at the Sorbonne (from 1957 to 1973). She then obtained the chair of Greek and the formation of moral and political thought at Collège de France — the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) to enter the Académie française : she was elected to chair n°7, previously occupied by André Roussin. In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and was nominated ambassador of hellinism by the Greek government in 2000.

She has presided over the association Guillaume Budé, of which she remained president of honour.

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Jacqueline de Romilly is the author of a number of works and translations, including :

Thucydide et l'impérialisme athénien, la pensée de l'historien et la genèse de l'œuvre, her thesis (1947)
translation of History of the Peloponnesian war by Thucydides (1953–1968)
Histoire et raison chez Thucydide (1956)
Nous autres professeurs (1969)
La loi dans la pensée grecque (1971)
L'enseignement en détresse (1984)
« Patience, mon cœur » : l'essor de la psychologie dans la littérature grecque classique (1984)
La modernité d'Euripide (1986)
La Grèce antique à la découverte de la liberté (1989)
Pourquoi la Grèce ? (1992)
Alcibiade ou les dangers de l'ambition (1995)
Sous des dehors si calmes (2002)
Une certaine idée de la Grèce (2003)