by Jacqueline de Romilly · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253146544
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«Hector» is the historical essay by Jacqueline de Romilly, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (280 pages, in French).
The essay analyses the figure of Hector, the defender of Troy in the Iliad, and champions his relevance as a model of humanity. De Romilly shows how Homer portrays the enemy with empathy, in scenes such as his farewell to Andromache and his son, or the indignation at Achilles' outrages against his corpse, offering a lesson in compassion at the origins of Greek culture.
The work was originally published in 1997; this French edition from Le Livre de Poche offers the complete text.
For readers of history, Greek mythology and classical studies, interested in the cultural heritage of Antiquity.
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.
