Background
She was born in Paris and died in Argenteuil.
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Nicole Loraux
Edit Profileanthropologist linguist translator university professor writer
Education
She studied Classics at university, before writing a Doctor of Philosophy thesis under the supervision of Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
Career
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. She has been described as a "preeminent" structuralist historian.
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Nationality
France