Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010)
Author of Alcibiade ou Les Dangers de l'ambition
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Studies Presented to Mary E. White on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday — Contributor — 1 copy
Histoire Et Historiens Dans L'Antiquité. Sept Exposés Et Discussions. Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique Tome IV. (1956) — Contributor — 1 copy
Historiographia antiqua : commentationes Lovanienses in honorem W. Peremans septuagenarii editae (1977) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Romilly, Jacqueline de
- Other names
- David, Jacqueline (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1913-03-26
- Date of death
- 2010-12-18
- Burial location
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
Greece (honorary citizenship) - Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
- Place of death
- Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
- Education
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Lycée Molière, Paris, France
Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France - Occupations
- classical scholar
university professor
writer
scholar
memoirist
classical scholar - Relationships
- Mazon, Paul (teacher)
- Organizations
- Académie française (1988)
Collège de France
University of Lille - Awards and honors
- Académie française
- Short biography
- Jacqueline de Romilly was a scholar of ancient Greek language and civilization. In 1988, she became only the second woman elected to the Académie Française. Sixteen years earlier, she had been the first woman appointed to a chair at the Collège de France. In addition to her works on ancient Greece, she wrote a novel, short stories, a travel book and several volumes of memoirs.
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