Claude Mossé (24 December 1924 – 12 December 2022) was a French historian specializing in the history of

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Biography

Mossé was born in Paris on 24 December 1924, as the daughter of a wine merchant. She was the sister of Eliane Mossé, researcher in

macroeconomics Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...

, and Arlette Mosse, clinical

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. In the winter of 1941, during

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and aged 16, she first read a text on liberty and democracy by

Demosthenes Demosthenes (; el, Δημοσθένης, translit=Dēmosthénēs; ; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prow ...

; since then, she dedicated her life to Greek history, never having married or having any children. Her favourite historical subject was 4th century BCE

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. Mossé belonged to the same school of historical thought with

Jean-Pierre Vernant Jean-Pierre Vernant (; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and ...

and

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. She was

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at the

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. Her works have been translated into many languages including English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and modern Greek. Mossé died in

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, 1966 * ''Les Institutions grecques'', Paris,

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, 1968 * ''La Tyrannie dans la Grèce antique'', Paris, PUF, 1969 * ''La Colonisation dans l'Antiquité'', Paris, Nathan, 1970 * ''Histoire d'une démocratie, Athènes'', Paris, Le Seuil, 1971 * ''Histoire des doctrines politiques en Grèce'', Paris, PUF, Que sais-je?, 1975 * ''La Femme dans la Grèce antique'', Paris,

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, 1983 * ''La Grèce archaïque d'Homère à Eschyle'', Paris, Le Seuil, 1984 * ''Le Procès de Socrate'', Bruxelles, Complexe, 1987 * ''L'Antiquité dans la Révolution française'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1989 * ''Précis d'histoire grecque. Du début du deuxième millénaire à la bataille d'Actium'', with Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon, Paris, Armand Colin, 1990 * ''Les Mythes Grecs'', Photographs by Erich Lessing, Nathan, 1991 * ''Dictionnaire de la civilisation grecque'', Bruxelles, Complexe, 1992 * ''Le Citoyen dans la Grèce antique'', Paris, Nathan, 1993 * ''Démosthène ou les ambiguïtés de la politique'', Paris, Armand Colin, 1994 * ''Politique et société en Grèce ancienne. Le « modèle » athénien'', Paris, Aubier, 1995 * ''Meurtres sur l'Agora'', Calmann-Lévy, 1995 * ''Alexandre. La destinée d'un mythe'', Paris, Payot, 2001 * ''Périclès, l'inventeur de la démocratie'', Payot, coll. biography, 2005 * ''Les Grecs inventent la politique'', Complexe, 2005 * ''Sacrilèges et trahisons à Athènes'', Larousse, 2009 * ''Au nom de la loi. Justice et politique à Athènes à l'âge classique'', Payot, 2010 * ''Regards sur la démocratie athénienne'', Perrin, 2013

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mosse, Claude 1924 births 2022 deaths 20th-century French historians 20th-century French women writers Scholars of ancient Greek history French hellenists Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity Academic staff of the University of Paris French women historians Writers from Paris

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