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JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY |
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By Culturekiosque Staff PARIS, 31 DECEMBER 2010 — Jacqueline de Romilly, a distinguished French academic and great philhellene, died on 18 December at the age of 97. De Romilly was a classical scholar who specialised in the civilisation and language of ancient Greece, and had been the first woman to be nominated to the prestigious College de France and the second woman to be elected member of the Académie Française after the writer Marguerite Yourcenar. In 1995, the Greek state bestowed honorary Greek Citizenship upon De Romilly. In 2000, she was named ambassador of Hellenism, and became a foreign guest member of the Athens Academy. As a scholar, she was known for her works on ancient Greek literature, and thought, especially on the historian Thucydides and Pericles’ Classical Athens. "The life and work of Jacqueline de Romilly are bathed in the light that comes from the sources of the highest civilisation – the Greek civilisation, the flame of which lived with her till her last breath" said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, while Prime Minister George Papandreou praised de Romilly for honouring Greek thought and for devoting herself to the promotion of Greek literature and arts. Travel Calendar Tips: chosen by the editors as being of interest to Culturekiosque readers. New York Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
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