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

Louis Bodin (1869-1949), classical philologist, Professor at the University of Dijon. Bodin studied at the École normale supérieure, and authored works on Plato, Thucydides, and the Attic orators.

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

Raymond Weil (1923-1995), classical philologist. Weil taught Greek at various institutions, including the Sorbonne, the University of Montpellier, and the University of Dijon, before becoming Professor and later director of the Faculty of Letters at Paris-Nanterre. From 1973 to 1988, he was Professor and director of the Department of Greek at the Sorbonne. He was a member and president of the Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques, and of the Association Guillaume-Budé. He was a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, recipient of the Médaille des évadés, a Commandeur of the Palmes académiques, and an Officier of the Order of Honour of Greece. CTHS