Jacqueline de Romilly

Jacqueline de Romilly
Jacqueline de Romilly
Born(1913-03-26)26 March 1913
Died18 December 2010(2010-12-18) (aged 97)
OccupationsWriter
Professor
Known forMember of the Académie française
Academic background
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
University of Paris
Academic work
Doctoral studentsSuzanne Saïd

Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (French: [ʁɔmiji]; née David; 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.

She is primarily known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides.