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Jacqueline de Romilly
AuthorBooks · Second hand1913-2010
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.
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About Jacqueline de Romilly
Birth
1913
Death
2010
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.
Jacqueline de Romilly was a prominent French Hellenist and philologist who dedicated her life to the study of classical Greece.
Born in Chartres, her deep passion for Greek culture led her to also obtain Hellenic citizenship.
Throughout her prolific career, she wrote nearly 80 works focusing on the history and literature of ancient Greece.
Her book Précis de littérature grecque is considered one of her most fundamental works for understanding the Hellenic world.
She occasionally signed her writings under the pseudonym Jacqueline Rancey.
