Jacqueline de Romilly

See also: Worms

Jacqueline Worms de Romilly , born Jacqueline David the March 26th 1913, is a French philologist . Member of the French Academy, first woman professor with the Collège de France, it is known on the international plan for his work on the civilization and the language of the ancient Greece, in particular in connection with Thucydide.

Biography

Born with Chartres in 1913, Jacqueline David is the girl of a professor of Philosophie which will die for France. It follows its studies to Paris, initially with the Lycée Molière, where it is prize winner of the open Competition of Latin and second old price in Greek in 1930 - the first year when the girls could contribute. After its Khâgne with the Louis-the-Large College, it enters to the National university (Ulm) promotion 1933. Raise of the hellenist Paul Mazon, it is received with the aggregation traditional letters in 1936. It Marie in 1940 with Michel de Romilly. Lastly, it obtains its Doctorat arts in 1947.

After having taught a time in College, it becomes professor at the university of Lille then to the Sorbonne (of 1957 with 1973). She obtains then the pulpit of Greece (formation of the moral and political thought) to the Collège de France. In 1988, it is the second woman, after Marguerite Yourcenar, to enter to the French Academy: she is elected with the armchair n° 7, occupied previously by André Roussin. In 1995, it obtains Greek nationality and is named ambassadress of the hellenism in 2000. She chaired the Association Guillaume Budé, of which she remains president of honor.

Distinctions

Member corresponding foreign of many academies: Academy of Denmark, British Academy, Academy of Vienna, Academy of Athens, Academy of Bavaria, Academy of the Netherlands, Academy of Naples, Academy of Turin, Academy of Genoa, American Academy off Arts and Sciences.

Honorary doctor of many universities: university of Oxford, University of Athens, University of Dublin, University of Heidelberg, University of Montreal, University Yale.

Work

Jacqueline de Romilly is the author of many works and translations, of which:

  • Thucydide and Athenian imperialism, the thought of the historian and genesis of work , thesis of doctorate, 1947; The humanities, 1961

  • Translation of the History of the war of the Peloponnese of Thucydide, 5 vol., the Humanities, 1953-1972
  • History and reason at Thucydide , the Humanities, 1956; 1967
  • Fear and anguish in the theater of Eschyle , the Humanities, 1958; 1971
  • Us other professors , Beech, 1969
  • the Greek Tragedy , PUF, 1970; 1982
  • the Law in the Greek thought, of the origins with Aristote , the Humanities, 1971
  • Problems of the Greek democracy , Hermann, 1975, ISBN 2705657819; Plon, Agora, 1986, ISBN 2-266-04815-5
  • Teaching unweaves , Julliard, 1984 of them; 1991
  • “Patience, my heart”: the rise of psychology in the traditional Greek literature , the Humanities, 1984; Plon, Agora, 1994
  • the Modernity of Euripide , PUF, 1986
  • On the ways of Holy-Victoire , Julliard, 1987; 1994
  • Large the Sophist S in the Athens of Périclès , ED. of Fallois, 1988
  • Greece with discovered freedom , ED. from Fallois, 1989
  • Why Greece? , ED. of Fallois, 1992, ISBN 2877061558; pocket, ISBN 2253135496
  • Alcibiade or dangers of the ambition , ED. of Fallois, 1995
  • Hector , ED. of Fallois, 1997
  • Under outside so calm , 2002
  • a certain idea of Greece , 2003
  • Pinks of loneliness , 2006
  • In the garden of the words , 2007

External bonds

  • Jacqueline de Romilly: the school of the culture
  • Card of Jacqueline Worms de Romilly on the site of the French Academy
----

Random links:Hubert Humphrey | Saint M3edard's Day (the Moselle) | Roland Castro (photographer) | Riverside Records | Semi-marathon | Histoire_de_la_Tunisie