Nicole Loraux

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Nicole Loraux (born April 26, 1943 , † April 6, 2003 in Argenteuil ) was a French historian .

Life

From 1987 Loraux taught as a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris history and anthropology of the Greek polis . As a student of Jean-Pierre Vernant , Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Marcel Detienne , she continued their work on the historical anthropology of Greece and set new accents here. With the help of language and myth analysis , historical science and psychoanalysis , Loraux primarily researched the ideas about the feminine in the culture of classical Greece . Here, as in her investigations into the use of cultural memory in the Attic polis, she always emphasized the function of these ideas in the respective social reality.

In L'invention d'Athènes (“The Invention of Athens ”), she asks how history is reinterpreted based on current experiences and needs in the traditional funeral speeches, especially by Pericles and in Plato's dialog Menexenos . In Les enfants d'Athéna (“The Children of Athens ”) she examines the mythical reasons for the exclusion of women and strangers from civil rights. The new edition of 1996 added a critical discussion of the importance of these ideas in the rhetoric of the Front National in France. In Façons tragiques de tuer une femme (dt. Tragic ways to kill a woman ) she deals with the different types of death that are intended for men and women in the tragedies, but also with the possibility of women to meet the "masculine" Appropriating death.

In Les expériences de Tiresias (“The Experiences of Teiresias ”) she depicts myths in which the strict separation of the sexes is undermined. In Les mères en deuil (Eng: the mourning of the mothers ), she contrasts the mothers of the Greek tragedy , who are mad in their grief, with the absolute prohibition for Athenian women to show their grief in public. In La Cité divisée (“The divided city”), which she saw as her magnum opus , she describes the publicly sponsored forgetting of stasis that broke out in Athens after the end of the Peloponnesian War . This civil war is also the subject of her last, posthumous book La tragédie d'Athènes ("The Tragedy of Athens"). After a stroke, from 1994 onwards her scientific work was only possible with great effort.

Fonts

  • L'invention d'Athènes. Histoire de l'oraison funèbre dans la 'cité classique' , 1981.
  • Les enfants d'Athéna. Idées athéniennes sur la citoyenneté et la division des sexes , 1981.
  • Façons tragiques de tuer une femme , 1985, German tragic ways to kill a woman (Edition Pandora, vol. 11) , Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1993, ISBN 3-593-34835-7 .
  • Les expériences de Tirésias. Le féminin et l'homme grec , 1989.
  • Les mères en deuil , 1990, German The mothers' grief. Female Passion and the Laws of Politics (Edition Pandora, Vol. 3) , Frankfurt, New York: Campus 1992, ISBN 3-593-34626-5 .
  • (Editor :) Grecia al femminile , Rome 1993, French La Grèce au féminin , 2001 (with contributions from her about the Greeks Melissa, wife of Periander , and Aspasia )
  • La Cité divisée , 1997.
  • (Editor with Carles Miralles :) Figures de l'intellectuel en Grèce ancienne , 1998.
  • La tragédie d'Athènes. La politique entre l'ombre et l'utopie , 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Loraux, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1943
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2003
Place of death Argenteuil