Jacqueline de Romilly

Jacqueline de Romilly

Jacqueline de Romilly (Chartres, 1913 - Paris, 2010) taught at various institutes in the faculty of Lille, the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne. She was the first female professor at the College de France, and then the first member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. She is the author of numerous reference books on the classical world: Thucydides and Athenian imperialism, Great Sophists in Periclean Athens (Gredos), Greece and the discovery of freedom, Why Greece? Ancient Greece or violence (Gredos). We Artworks teachers and teaching Homelessness were reissued in France in 1991 under the title Writings on education. Elected to the French Academy in November 1988, Jacqueline de Romilly was officially received it on 26 October 1989.