Jean-Paul Brisson (11 September 1918 – 25 June 2006) was a French honorary professor of Latin language and civilisation at the

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. He devoted himself particularly to the social problems of antiquity,

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and classical poets. He participated with other colleagues committed to the left ( Elena Cassin,

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, Charles Malamoud, André-Georges Haudricourt, Jean Yoyotte, Jean Bottero) in a

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think tank organised by

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. This group took on an institutional form with the creation, in 1964, of the ''Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes'', which later became the ''Centre Louis Gernet'', focusing more on the study of

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Works

*1949: ''Gloire et misère de l'Afrique chrétienne'', Bibliothèque chrétienne d'histoire *1958: ''Autonomisme et christianisme dans l'Afrique romaine, de Septime Sévère à l'invasion vandale'', É. de Boccard *1959: ''Spartacus'', *1966: ''Virgile, son temps et le nôtre'', François Maspero *1973: ''Carthage ou Rome'',

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*1992: ''Rome et l'âge d'or, de Catulle à Ovide, histoire d'un mythe'', La Découverte, *2005: ''Traité des Mystères d' Hilaire de Poitiers'', bilingual edition, Éditions du Cerf

References

External links

Rome et l'âge d'or. De Catulle à Ovide, vie et mort d'un mythe (compte rend)
on Persée
Spartacus by Jean-Paul Brisson
review on JSTOR

on La Découverte {{DEFAULTSORT:Brisson, Jean-Paul 20th-century French historians French scholars of Roman history 1918 births 2006 deaths