Paul Petit (1914 – 1981/06/14) was a 20th-century French historian, a specialist in

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

. He was a professor at the

University of Grenoble The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a Grands établissements, ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Es ...

. Paul Petit's books covered a multitude of issues in relation to Rome and the ,Elena Gallardo Paúls,
Instituciones romanas
' For example, in his book ''Histoire générale de l'Empire romain'', pages 178–179, he dealt with the ''

Cursus honorum The , or more colloquially 'ladder of offices'; ) was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank. The comprised a mixture of ...

'' of a senator's son.

Bibliography

*1962: ''Précis d'Histoire Ancienne'' *1967: ''La paix romaine'',

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, series "Nouvelle Clio – L’histoire et ses problèmes" *1974: ''Histoire générale de l’Empire romain'', Le Seuil,

References

External links

Paul Petit, Histoire générale de l'Empire romain (compte rendu)
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Paul Petit, La Paix romaine (compte rendu)
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André Chastagnol André Chastagnol (21 February 1920 – 2 September 1996) was a French historian, specializing in Latin epigraphy and literature. After teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Rennes and Paris-X, he finished his career as a professor at the Pa ...

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Paul Petit, La Paix romaine (compte rendu) by Claude Sterckx
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Petit, Paul 20th-century French historians French scholars of Roman history 1914 births 1981 deaths