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Jacqueline de Romilly, Pro

Jacqueline de Romilly (1913-2010) held the Chair of "Greece and the development of moral and political thought" at College de France and was the first woman to teach there (1973). She later became the first woman elected to the Academie des inscriptions et belles lettres (1975 ). As an expert in Greek civilisation and language, she authored numerous works, mainly on the historian Thucydides, the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, and the Peloponnesian War.