Robert Flacelière

Robert Flacelière was a scholar of Classical Greek born in Paris, France, in 1904. He was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, the Lycée Henri IV and the École Normale Supérieure. From 1925-1930 he was a member of the French School in Athens and from 1932-1948 a Professor of the Faculty of Letters at University of Lyon. He was then appointed to the Chair of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Paris, a post he held until 1963 when he was appointed Director of the École Normale Supérieure.

Major Works

*"Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles" (1937)
*"Greek Oracles" (1962)
*"Love in Ancient Greece" (1960)
*"Homélies de Jean Chrysostome sur l'incompréhensibilité de Dieu" (with Jean-Yves Leloup)
*"A Literary History of Greece" (1962) as "Histoire littéraire de la Grèce", Paris, Fayard; translated into English in 1964 by by Douglas Garman, Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co.