Nicole Loraux (26 April 1943 – 6 April 2003) was a French historian of

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Biography

She was born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

and died in

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. She graduated in Classics at the École normale supérieure des filles (1962). In 1965, she obtained the agrégation de lettres classiques (examination equivalent to the Postgraduate Higher Education Teaching Certificate, but more competitive), before writing a PhD thesis under the supervision of

Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (; 23 July 1930 – 29 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the ''École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' (EHESS) in 1969. Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, but ...

. Her doctoral thesis ''Athènes imaginaire. Histoire de l'oraison funèbre athénienne et de sa fonction dans la cité classique'' (1977) became Loraux's best known work, ''The Invention of Athens: the Funeral Oration in the Classical City'' (Cambridge, MA 1986; New York 2006; orig. fr. Paris 1981)''.'' Loraux was influential in the rise of gender as an important category of analysis in ancient Greek history. She has been described as a "preeminent" structuralist historian. In 2007, a conference was held in Paris to explore Loraux's legacy in feminist and classical scholarship. In 2018, a conference in Strasbourg entitled 'The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux' paid homage to the "huge impact" of Loraux's work on our understanding of the funeral oration's "central part in maintaining Athenian self-identity".

Publications

* ''La Tragédie d’Athènes. La politique entre l’ombre et l’utopie'', Seuil, 2005 * ''La Cité divisée. L’oubli dans la mémoire d’Athènes'', Paris, Payot, coll. « Petite Bibliothèque Payot », 2005 * (dir.), (it) ''Grecia al femminile'', Roma-Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1993 ; (fr) ''La Grèce au féminin'', traduction française des articles en italien par Hélène Monsacré, Belles Lettres, coll. « Histoire », 2003 * avec Carles Miralles (dir.), ''Figures de l’intellectuel en Grèce ancienne'', Belin, 2000 * ''La Voix endeuillée. Essai sur la tragédie grecque'', Gallimard, 1999 * ''Né de la terre. Mythe et politique à Athènes'', Paris, Seuil, coll. « La Librairie du xx^e siècle» , 1996 * ''La Cité divisée. Critique de la politique'', Payot, 1997 * ''L’Invention d’Athènes. Histoire de l’oraison funèbre dans la « cité classique »'', Paris/La Haye, éd. de l’EHESS/Mouton, 1981; nouvelle éd., nouvelle préface, Payot, 1993 * ''Qu’est-ce qu’une déesse'' dans ''Histoire des femmes en Occident I'', Plon, 1991 * ''Les Enfants d’Athéna. Idées athéniennes sur la citoyenneté et la division des sexes'', Paris, Maspero, 1981 ; éd. augmentée d'une postface, Seuil, coll. « Points/Essais », 1990 * ''Les Mères en deuil'', Paris, Seuil, 1990 * ''Les Expériences de Tirésias. Le féminin et l’homme grec'', Paris, Gallimard, NRF Essais, 1990 * ''Façons tragiques de tuer une femme'', Paris, Hachette, 1985

English translations

* ''The invention of Athens: the funeral oration in the classical city'', New York, Zone Books, 2006 ; Cambridge, M.A., Harvard University Press, 1986 * ''The divided city: on memory and forgetting in ancient Athens'', New York, Zone Books, 2002 * ''The mourning voice: an essay on Greek tragedy'', Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2002 . * ''Born of the earth: myth and politics in Athens'', Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2000 * ''Mothers in mourning: with the essay, Of amnesty and its opposite'', Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1998 * ''The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man'', Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1995 * ''The children of Athena: Athenian ideas about citizenship and the division between the sexes'', Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1993 * “What is a Goddess?” in ''A History of Women, Volume I: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints'', ed. Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Cambridge, M.A., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992, 11–44, orig. it. Roma-Bari 1990 * ''Tragic ways of killing a woman'', Cambridge, M.A., Harvard University Press, 1987

References

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