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Αγαπάμε τα Αρχαία Ελληνικά
Sensibilité et émotion sont au rendez-vous avec cet ouvrage original présenté par deux des plus éminents spécialistes de la langue et de l'histoire grecques, Jacqueline de Romilly et Jean-Pierre Vernant. Quels souvenirs ou plutôt quelles traces ont laissés les premiers contacts avec les textes fabuleux d'Homère, de Sophocle, de Xénophon ou de Platon ? 27 amoureux du grec ont accepté de répondre à cette question se pliant à un exercice de style plein de grâce et de simplicité. Le principe ? Evoquer, à partir d'un court extrait de la littérature grecque librement choisi, les impressions et les sensations laissées par la découverte de la langue d'Homère. Yves Bonnefoy, Claude Abeille, Elisabeth Badinter, mais aussi de jeunes élèves de lycée témoignent de leur émerveillement pour cette langue "faite de diagonales et de rondeurs, de pleins et de déliés et surtout de ces accents et ces esprits qui semblent pétiller au-dessus du texte comme des bulles de champagne".
Vive le grec ! --Laurence Mazé
Vive le grec ! --Laurence Mazé
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First published August 25, 2000
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Jacqueline de Romilly
93 books38 followersJacqueline Worms de Romilly (March 26, 1913-December 18, 2010) was a French philologist, Classical scholar and writer of fiction of Jewish ancestry.
Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the lycée Molière, where she was the winner of the Concours général de latin and took the second prize in Greek in 1930. She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at the lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered ENS Ulm in the class of 1933. She then passed the agrégation of Classics in 1936, and became a doctor of letters in 1947.
After having taught for some time in a school, she became a professor first at the University of Lille and subsequently at the Sorbonne (from 1957 to 1973). She was then elevated to the chair of Greek and the development of moral and political thought at the Collège de France — the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) to enter the Académie française, being elected to Chair #7, previously occupied by André Roussin. In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and in 2000 was nominated Ambassador of Hellenism by the Greek government.
She was at one time president of the Association Guillaume Budé, and remains the honorary president of that institution.
Born in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, she studied at the lycée Molière, where she was the winner of the Concours général de latin and took the second prize in Greek in 1930. She then prepared for the École Normale Supérieure at the lycée Louis-le-Grand. She entered ENS Ulm in the class of 1933. She then passed the agrégation of Classics in 1936, and became a doctor of letters in 1947.
After having taught for some time in a school, she became a professor first at the University of Lille and subsequently at the Sorbonne (from 1957 to 1973). She was then elevated to the chair of Greek and the development of moral and political thought at the Collège de France — the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was the second woman (after Marguerite Yourcenar) to enter the Académie française, being elected to Chair #7, previously occupied by André Roussin. In 1995, she obtained Greek nationality and in 2000 was nominated Ambassador of Hellenism by the Greek government.
She was at one time president of the Association Guillaume Budé, and remains the honorary president of that institution.
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