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 ...

The author of dozens of works on Greek philosophy, language and literature, Jacqueline de Romilly wrote about Homer ... student at the Lycée Molière in Paris, coming first in Latin and second ...

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 ...

French scholar Jacqueline de ... She was 97. Romilly died Saturday at a hospital in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, said her publisher, Bernard de Fallois. French President Nicolas ...