Abstract
The writing of history favoured by Nicole Loraux is set upon series of shifts and variations from otherwise familiar objects : "classical" Athenian democracy and ancient Greece's politics. Nicole Loraux introduces herself as historian of institutions, but of the institution of words, of funeral oration ; historian of myths, but taken in their civic founding ; historian not of women, but of the feminine and of the political differences between sexes, historian of the dividing as the most powerful bond in the city. Her forceful writing, which presents anachronism as a virtue to present Moderns' place in these constructions, is thus producing new objects, or ancient objects that a historian is asked to look at differently.
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