Jacques Bompaire (16 January 1924 – 6 May 2009) was a 20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of

ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

and

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of the Roman and Byzantine period.

Biography

A former student of the

École normale supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(class 1943), he volunteered in 1944 for the remainder of World War II. Received first to the Agrégation de Lettres Classiques in 1947, he was elected a member of the French School at Athens in 1948. He devoted his doctoral research on

Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...

, and in 1956 supported a State thesis entitled ''Lucien écrivain. Imitation et création''. His complementary thesis, the same year, is devoted in turn to the ''Praktika de Xéropotamou'', he published and commented census acts regarding land area of Xeropotamou monastery on Mount Athos during the

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He presided the Association Guillaume Budé from 1989 to 1996, then became its honorary president until his death. He was President of the from 1982 to 1990.

Main works

Festschrift

''Opôra, la belle saison de l'hellénisme: Études de littérature antique''. Ancient literature studies offered to the rector Jacques Bompaire, Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2001 (complete bibliography inserted).

Author

* 1974 : ''La paléographie grecque et byzantine'', introduction in collaboration with Jean Irigoin, Colloques internationaux du CNRS, n° 559, Paris, 21–25 October 1974 * 1981 : « Photius et la Seconde Sophistique, after the ''Bibliothèque'' », in ''Travaux et Mémoires'', vol. VIII, (p. 79–86). * 1993 : « Diplomatique et rhétorique à l'époque de Michel VIII Paléologue, 1258-1282 », in Jean-Pierre Bardet and Madeleine Foisil (under the direction of), ''La vie, la mort, la foi, le temps, mélanges offerts à Pierre Chaunu'',

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, (p. 671–681) * * 2000 : ''Lucien écrivain. Imitation et création'', Les Belles Lettres

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Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...

* ''Œuvres'', text established and translated into French by Jacques Bompaire, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, Collection des universités de France: ** Volume 1, 2003, (includes ''Phalaris A'', ''Phalaris B'', ''Hippias'', ''Dionysos'', ''Héraclès '', ''À propos de l'ambre ou des cygnes'', ''Éloge de la mouche'', ''Nigrinos'', ''Vie de Démonax'' and ''La salle''). ** Volume 2, 2003, (includes ''Éloge de la patrie'', ''Les « longue-vie »'', ''Histoires vraies A'', ''Histoires vraies B'', ''Qu'il ne faut pas croire à la légère à la calomnie'', ''Le jugement des voyelles'', ''Le banquet ou les Lapithes'', ''Le pseudosophiste ou le soléciste'', ''La traversée pour les enfers ou le tyran'' and ''Zeus confondu''). ** Volume 3, 2003, (includes ''Zeus tragédien'', ''Le songe ou le coq'', ''Prométhée'', ''Icaroménippe ou l'homme qui va au-dessus des nuages'' and ''Timon ou le misanthrope''). ** Volume 4, 2008, (includes ''Charon ou les observateurs'', ''Les vies des philosophes à l'encan'', ''Les ressuscités ou les pêcheurs'' and ''La double accusation ou les tribunaux'').

References

Bibliography

* Patrick Cabanel, « Jacques Bompaire », in Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015, (p. 359–360)

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