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Entry | L'oraison funèbre de Périclès. Περικλέους Επιτάφιος

L'oraison funèbre de Périclès. Περικλέους Επιτάφιος

Typology: Translation | Language: French | Place of publication: Athens, Greece | Publisher: Le Parlement Hellénique | Year: 1998

Greek Text: yes

Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Jacqueline de Romilly, née David (1913-2010), classical philologist, historian. Romilly studied at the École normale supérieure and earned her doctorate with a thesis on Thucydides. Professor first at the University of Lille and then at the Sorbonne, she became the first woman to teach at the Collège de France (1973) and the second woman elected to the Académie française (1988). Her scholarly work focused on Greek historiography, tragedy, and political thought, particularly Thucydides. Among her major works are Thucydide et l’impérialisme athénien (1947) and La Construction de la vérité chez Thucydide (1990). She also published widely on Aeschylus and Herodotus. Collège de France

Translation of Thuc. 2.35-56 (Pericles' Funeral Oration), reprinted from de Romilly 1953-1972. The volume was promoted by the Greek Parliament and overseen by M. Fanis Kakridis (1933-2019), Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Ioannina.

Related editions:

Thucydide. La guerre du Péloponnèse. Texte établi et traduit par Jacqueline de Romilly, Louis Bodin et Raymond Weil

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