Nicole Loraux

Nicole Loraux (26 April 1943 – 6 April 2003) was a French historian of classical Athens. She was born in Paris and died in Argenteuil. She graduated in Classics at the École normale supérieure des filles (1962).[1] 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.[2]

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).[3]

Loraux has been influential in the rise of gender as an important category of analysis in ancient Greek history.[4] She has been described as a "preeminent" structuralist historian.[5] In 2007, a conference was held in Paris to explore Loraux's legacy in feminist and classical scholarship.[6] 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".[7]

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 ISBN 2-228-89961-5
  • (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 ISBN 2-251-38048-5
  • 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 xxe siècle» , 1996 ISBN 2-02-028240-2
  • 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 ISBN 2-7071-1204-6 ; éd. augmentée d'une postface, Seuil, coll. « Points/Essais », 1990 ISBN 978-2-7578-0633-3
  • 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 ISBN 1890951587; Cambridge, M.A., Harvard University Press, 1986 ISBN 0674463625
  • The divided city: on memory and forgetting in ancient Athens, New York, Zone Books, 2002 ISBN 1890951080
  • The mourning voice: an essay on Greek tragedy, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2002 ISBN 0801438306.
  • Born of the earth: myth and politics in Athens, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2000 ISBN 080143419X
  • Mothers in mourning: with the essay, Of amnesty and its opposite, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1998 ISBN 0801430909
  • The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1995 ISBN 0691029857
  • The children of Athena: Athenian ideas about citizenship and the division between the sexes, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1993 ISBN 0691032726
  • “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 ISBN 0674403703
  • Tragic ways of killing a woman, Cambridge, M.A., Harvard University Press, 1987 ISBN 0674902254
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References
  1. "Association des anciens élèves, élèves et amis de l'École normale supérieure". Annuaire.
  2. Ismard, Pauline. "Nicole Loraux, l'audace d'être historienne". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  3. "ICS Library Catalogue".
  4. Hedrick, Charles W. (1994). "Review of "Children of Athena" by Nicole Loraux". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 5 (2): 295–297.
  5. Monoson, S. Sarah (1997). "Review of "Children of Athena" by Nicole Loraux". Political Theory. 25 (2): 302–305. doi:10.1177/0090591797025002008.
  6. "Preface". Classics@. 7.
  7. "The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux". Retrieved 22 January 2018.
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