Robert Flacelière

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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 Lyons. 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.

[edit] 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