Jacqueline Assaël
Jacqueline Assaël, born on 7 August 1957 in Marseille, is a French scholar of ancient Greek language and literature. Since 2004 she has been a professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. She is also an essayist and a poet. She specializes in Euripides and has written about poetic inspiration in antiquity. She is a philologist and has worked on some New Testament exegesis.
She studied classics at the University of Provence and earned a doctorate in 1987. After passing the agrégation in 1980, she taught in high schools in Marseille and then Liévin. In 1983 she became assistant professor of Greek at the University of Perpignan, and in 1990 she joined the University of Nice, where she was promoted to full professor in 2004.
Assaël began publishing poetry and essays in 1999 in various journals and with different publishers. Patrick Cabanel notes that her poetry blends three Mediterranean influences: Greek, Judeo-Christian, and Cévenole. She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Loxias and Foi et Vie.
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