Marie Delcourt (

Ixelles ( French, ) or (Dutch, ), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Brussels' city centre, it is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the muni ...

, 18 November 1891 –

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, 11 February 1979) was a Belgian classical philologist. She studied at the

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(ULg), and obtained a PhD in

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

in 1919. Under the

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she was active in the Dame Blanche resistance network. She was the first female part-time lecturer at the ULg. An expert in the history of the

ancient Greek religion Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices. The application of the modern concept of "religion" to ancient cultures has been ...

, Marie Delcourt was particularly interested in the psychological dimension of religious facts. She was also a newspaper

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and

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ist. She was married to writer

Alexis Curvers Alexis Curvers (24 February 1906, Liège – 7 February 1992) was a French-speaking Belgian writer. He was married to hellenist Marie Delcourt. Biography Alexis Curvers' mother died when he was three years old and his father when he was ninete ...

Publications

;Ancient history * ''La vie d'Euripide'', Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1930. Rééd. Labor, Bruxelles, 2004, coll. Espace Nord * ''Eschyle'', Éd. Rieder, Paris, 1934 (Maîtres de Littérature, 18) * ''Stérilités mystérieuses et naissances maléfiques dans l'antiquité classique'', Éd. Droz, Paris, 1938 (FacPhLLg, 82) * ''Périclès'', Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1939 ( prix quinquennal de l'essai 1940) * ''Légendes et cultes de héros en Grèce'', P.U.F., Paris, 1942 * ''Images de Grèce'', Éd. Libris, Brussel, 1943 * ''Œdipe ou la légende du conquérant'', with

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, Éd. Fac.Phil.Lett., Liège, 1944, (FacPhLg, 104) :* Translated by Malcolm B. DeBevoise as ''Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror'' (Michigan State University Press, 2020) * ''Les grands sanctuaires de la Grèce'', P.U.F. 1947 (Mythes et Religions, 21) * ''L'oracle de Delphes'', Éd. Payot, Paris, 1955 * ''Héphaistos ou la légende du magicien'', Éd. Belles-Lettres, Paris, 1957 (FacPhLLg 146) * ''Hermaphrodite, mythes et rites de la bisexualité dans l'antiquité classique'', Éd. P.U.F., Paris, 1958 (Mythes et Religions, 36) :* Translated by Jennifer Nicolson as ''Hermaphrodite: Myths and Rites of the Bisexual Figure in Classical Antiquity'' (1961) * ''Oreste et Alcméon. Étude sur la projection légendaire du matricide en Grèce'', Éd. Belles-Lettres, Paris, 1959 (FacPhLLg 151) * ''Pyrrhus et Pyrrha. Recherches sur les valeurs du feu dans les légendes helléniques'', Éd. Belles-Lettres, Paris 1965, (FacPhLLg 174) ;History of humanism * ''Thomas More, œuvres choisies'', Éd. La Renaissance du livre, Paris, 1936 (Les Cent Chefs-d'œuvre étrangers) * ''Érasme'', Éd. Libris, Brussels, 1944 ;Translations * ''Tragiques Grecs. Euripide'', Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1962, (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade) * ''Thomas More. L'Utopie'', Éd. La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels, 1966 * ''La correspondance d'Érasme'', Collectif, tomes 1, 10, 11, Éd. Presses Académiques Européennes, Bruxelles, 1967–1982 ;Varia * ''Jean Schlumberger, essai critique'', Éd. Gallimard, Paris, 1945 * ''Méthode de cuisine à l'usage des personnes intelligentes'', Éd. Baude, Paris-Bruxelles, 1947 * ''L'autre regard'', Ed. Le Cri/Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises, Brussels, 2004. A collection of her columns from ''

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''.

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Marie Delcourt
(French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Delcourt, Marie 1891 births 1979 deaths People from Ixelles Belgian academics Walloon people University of Liège alumni Walloon movement activists