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Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece	Jacqueline de Romilly (26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a Frence philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer, one of the preeminent figures of classical philology in France during the 20th century, is best known for her books on 5th-century Athenian political and cultural history. She was born Jacqueline David in Chartres. Her father was a philosophy professor who was killed in action in the First World War when she was one year old and she was brought up by her mother, who wrote novels. She was a brilliant student, coming first in Latin and second in ancient Greek in a nationwide exam. After graduating she became a schoolteacher and in 1940 married Michel de Romilly. The marriage, which was childless, would end in divorce in the 1970s. Jacqueline was the first woman to be accepted at the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure; the first woman professor elected to the Collège de France; the first woman elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; and the second woman (after the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar) elected to the Académie Française. She was the author of dozens of works on Greek philosophy, language and literature, writing about Homer and about the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But her lifelong passion was Thucydides, the historian of the Peloponnesian War, whose works she translated into French and about whom she published several studies. Thucydides’s intelligent, reflective approach to the problems of his day, she believed, held lessons relevant to the Europe of today. She frequently toured French schools, giving talks about the culture of the ancient Greeks in an effort to promote the spirit of reason and intellectual inquiry. She regarded a grounding in the classics as vital to the understanding and defence of democracy, the liberty of the individual, and the virtue of tolerance at a time when, she felt, all three were under threat. Later in life she wrote short stories and biographical books. Particular in Les roses de la solitude, de Romilly, nearly blind and confined in the study and sitting room of the Paris apartment where she lived most of her adult life, gazes into her past, arrested by the sight of objects which have long figured in her daily life. Her heightened sense of mortality and near blindness focus the recollection of her past, personal and professional, around those objects and prompt reflections on a life both nourished and diminished by an uncompromising commitment to the classics. In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and in 2000 was named as an Ambassador of Hellenism by the Greek government. She died in 2010 at the age of 97.

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Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

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Jacqueline de Romilly (26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a Frence philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer, one of the preeminent figures of classical philology in France during the 20th century, is best known for her books on 5th-century Athenian political and cultural history. She was born Jacqueline David in Chartres. Her father was a philosophy professor who was killed in action in the First World War when she was one year old and she was brought up by her mother, who wrote novels. She was a brilliant student, coming first in Latin and second in ancient Greek in a nationwide exam. After graduating she became a schoolteacher and in 1940 married Michel de Romilly. The marriage, which was childless, would end in divorce in the 1970s.

Jacqueline was the first woman to be accepted at the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure; the first woman professor elected to the Collège de France; the first woman elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; and the second woman (after the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar) elected to the Académie Française.

She was the author of dozens of works on Greek philosophy, language and literature, writing about Homer and about the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But her lifelong passion was Thucydides, the historian of the Peloponnesian War, whose works she translated into French and about whom she published several studies. Thucydides’s intelligent, reflective approach to the problems of his day, she believed, held lessons relevant to the Europe of today. She frequently toured French schools, giving talks about the culture of the ancient Greeks in an effort to promote the spirit of reason and intellectual inquiry. She regarded a grounding in the classics as vital to the understanding and defence of democracy, the liberty of the individual, and the virtue of tolerance at a time when, she felt, all three were under threat.

Later in life she wrote short stories and biographical books. Particular in Les roses de la solitude, de Romilly, nearly blind and confined in the study and sitting room of the Paris apartment where she lived most of her adult life, gazes into her past, arrested by the sight of objects which have long figured in her daily life. Her heightened sense of mortality and near blindness focus the recollection of her past, personal and professional, around those objects and prompt reflections on a life both nourished and diminished by an uncompromising commitment to the classics.

In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and in 2000 was named as an Ambassador of Hellenism by the Greek government. She died in 2010 at the age of 97.

Romilly Jacqueline 1913 - 2010 (97) Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

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Romilly Jacqueline 1913 - 2010 (97)

Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.