PARIS – French scholar Jacqueline de Romilly, a specialist on ancient Greece, a prolific writer and one of the first women to join the prestigious Academie Francaise, has died. She was 97.

Jacqueline de Romilly, one of France’s leading scholars of Greek civilization and language and only the second woman to be elected to the Académie Française, died on Saturday in the Paris ...

French scholar Jacqueline de Romilly, an expert on ancient Greece ... a research and teaching institution in Paris, and was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1988, only the second woman after ...