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 studied Classics at university, before writing a PhD thesis under the supervision of Pierre Vidal-Naquet.^[1]

Loraux's best known work is The Invention of Athens: the Funeral Oration in the Classical City, and she has been influential in the rise of gender as an important category of analysis in ancient Greek history.^[2] She has been described as a "preeminent" structuralist historian.^[3]

References

1. Ismard, Pauline. http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Nicole-Loraux-l-audace-d-etre.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. Hedrick, Charles W. (1994). "Review of "Children of Athena" by Nicole Loraux". Journal of the History of Sexuality 5 (2): 295–297.
3. Monoson, S. Sarah (1997). "Review of "Children of Athena" by Nicole Loraux". Political Theory 25 (2): 302–305.