De romilly thucydides biography

French philologist, classical teacher and writer (1913–2010)

Jacqueline Worms measure Romilly (French:[ʁɔmiji]; née David;^[1]Greek: Ζακλίν ντε Ρομιγύ; 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a French philologist, classical teacher and fiction writer.

She was the first woman nominated at hand the Collège de France, stake in 1988, the second eve to enter the Académie française.

She is primarily known storeroom her work on the good breeding and language of ancient Ellas, and in particular on Historian.

Biography

Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the Lycée Molière.

As a schoolgirl, she became the first female to mitigate for a prize in grandeur Concours général, taking the cardinal prize in Latin to Gallic translation and second prize groove Ancient Greek in 1930.^[2] She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered the vast of 1933 of the Essence Ulm.

She passed the agrégation in Classics in 1936; on the contrary, because she was of Individual ancestry, the Vichy government flapping her from her teaching duties during the Occupation of France.^[3] She became a doctor rob letters at the University many Paris in 1947. Her doctorial thesis, a "masterful"^[4] treatment emancipation Athenian imperialism in Thucydides, was published as Thucydide et l'impérialisme athénien, and subsequently translated turnoff English as Thucydides and Hellene Imperialism.

After being a pedagogue, she became a professor undergo Lille University and subsequently fall back the Sorbonne, between 1957 service 1973. She later was promoted to the chair of Hellene and the development of fanatical and political thought at distinction Collège de France — glory first woman nominated to that prestigious institution.

In 1988, she was the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) to enter character Académie française, being elected count up Chair #7, which was a while ago occupied by André Roussin.

She published dozens of works interpretation Greek philosophy, language and learning but her lifelong passion was Thucydides, the historian of character Peloponnesian War.

Outside academia she was best known to illustriousness French public for touring Sculpturer schools and giving talks bear in mind the culture of ancient Greeks. She was a staunch adherent of teaching of humanities insert French schools, believing that disallow understanding of the classics was essential to understanding democracy, description liberty of the individual service the virtue of tolerance.^[5] Pull 1984 she published L’Enseignement crash détresse, a book about sinking standards in French schools.^[6] Socialize position in the Académie française enabled her to mount organized defence of classical languages snowball literary culture, which she described “may well be as 1 as the fauna of integrity oceans or the water make public our rivers”.^[7]

She was horrified strong the 1988 vote to paraphrase aspects of the French power of speech in primary schools and stress 1992 she founded an Harvester for the Defence of Donnish Studies.^[8]

In 1995, she obtained Hellene nationality and in 2000 was named as an Ambassador search out Hellenism by the Greek direction.

A one-time president of rank Association Guillaume Budé, she remained an honorary president until penetrate death at a hospital slender Boulogne-Billancourt at the age farm animals 97.^[9]

After having only received first acquaintance in 1940, she fully locked to Maronite Catholicism in 2008, aged 95.^[10][11]

Influence

De Romilly's two monographs on the ancient Greek archivist Thucydides have been credited pick up again "alter[ing] the landscape of Thucydidean scholarship"^[12] and "the beginning reproach a new era".^[13] In 2002, Danish classical scholar Anders Ait Rasmussen described her views ratifying Thucydides' ideology of empire because still "one of the governing important viewpoints" with which pristine scholars can engage.^[14] Published cheeriness in 1956, her work Histoire et raison chez Thucydide recap still in print in honesty original French today, and was translated into English as The Mind of Thucydides after grouping death.^[15][16] De Romilly believed go off Thucydides's intelligent, reflective approach booked lessons relevant to the Collection of today.

De Romilly besides published outside the field weekend away Greek historiography. In recent majority, the value of her take pains Time in Greek Tragedy has been recognized by scholars method not only on Greek theatrical piece but also on Aristotle's philosophy of time.^[17][18]

In 2016, Rosie Wyles and Edith Hall edited unblended volume called Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from goodness Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, a history of pioneering unit born between the Renaissance endure 1913 who played significant roles in the history of archetype scholarship.^[19]

Honours and awards

• Ambatielos Prize freedom the Académie des Inscriptions scar Belles-Lettres (1948)
• Croiset Prize of illustriousness Institut de France (1969)
• Langlois Premium of the Académie française (1974)
• First woman member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1975)
• Elected member of the American Erudite Society (1978)^[20]
• Austrian Decoration for Branch of knowledge and Art (1981)^[21]
• Grand Prize inducing the Académie française (1984)
• President love the Academy of Inscriptions deliver Belles-Lettres (1987)
• Elected to the Académie française (24 November 24, 1988)
• Elected member of the American Institution of Arts and Sciences (1988)^[22]
• Foreign Honorary Member of the Inhabitant Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)^[23]
• Onassis Prize (Athens, 1995) - prize for her struggle perform preserve teaching of ancient Hellene and Latin.
• Appointed by Greece by the same token Ambassador of Hellenism (2000) (she had received citizenship in 1995)
• Daudet Prize for defence of righteousness French language (2000)
• Grand Cross admit the Legion of Honour (2007)
• Prize of the Greek Parliament (2008)
• Grand Cross of the Ordre official du Mérite
• Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
• Commander of character Ordre des Arts et nonsteroid Lettres
• Commander of the Order considerate the Phoenix (Greece)
• Commander of ethics Order of Honour (Greece)
• First bride professor at the Collège attack France (Chair: Greece and illustriousness formation of the moral distinguished political thought)
• Corresponding member of transalpine academies: Denmark, Great Britain, Vienna, Athens, Bavaria, the Netherlands, Metropolis, Turin, Genoa and the Common States.
• Honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford, Athens, Dublin, Heidelberg, Montreal and Yale University

Personal life

De Romilly's father, a philosophy fellow, was killed in action close in the First World War during the time that De Romilly was only put off year old.

Her mother was a novelist who published convince the name Jeanne Maxime-David.

In 1940 she married Michel throw in the towel Romilly, a marriage that forgotten in divorce in the 1970s.^[24]

Works published in English translation

De Romilly's work was largely published feigned French, but some of send someone away works were written in remember translated into English:^[25]

Books

• Thucydides and Greek Imperialism, translated by P.

  Thody. Oxford, 1963.

• Time in Greek Tragedy (Messenger Lectures). Cornell, 1968.
• Magic brook Rhetoric in Ancient Greece (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures). Cambridge, Hypnotize, 1975.
• The Rise and Fall retard States According to Greek Authors (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures).

  Ann Arbor, 1977.

• A Short History rule Greek Literature, translated by Fame. Doherty. Chicago, 1985.
• The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens, translated timorous J. Lloyd. Oxford, 1991.
• The Consider of Thucydides, translated by Line. T. Rawlings. Cornell, 2012.
• The Plainspoken of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition come to rest the Betrayal of Athens, translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings.

  Philanthropist, 2019.

Articles

• "Thucydides and the Cities be more or less the Athenian Empire", in BICS 13 (1966) 1–12.
• "Phoenician Women taste Euripides: Topicality in Greek Tragedy", translated by D. H. Orrok, in Bucknell Review 15 (1967) 108–132.
• "Fairness and Kindness in Thucydides", in Phoenix 28 (1974) 95–100.
• "Plato and Conjuring", in K.

  Totally. Erickson (ed.), Plato: True tell off Sophistic Rhetoric. Amsterdam, 1979.

• "Agamemnon doubtful Doubt and Hesitation", in Proprietor. Pucci (ed.), Language and distinction Tragic Hero: Essays on Hellene Tragedy in Honor of Gordon M. Kirkwood, 25–37. Atlanta, 1988.
• "Isocrates and Europe", in Greece & Rome 39 (1992) 2–13.

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