Victor Bérard (;

Morez Morez () is a former Communes of France, commune of the Jura (department), Jura Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Hauts de Bienne.

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, 13 November 1931) was a French diplomat and politician. Today, he is still renowned for his works about

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

studies and

geography of the Odyssey The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the ''Odyssey'' take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca (island), Ithaca and it ...

. Bérard's "''L'Angleterre et l'impérialisme''" was translated into English and published in 1906 as "British imperialism and commercial supremacy" (Longmans, Green, London, New York).

Bibliography

L'Angleterre et l'Impérialisme
Armand Colin, Paris, 1900
''Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée''
(1902–1903, re-ed. 1927), Armand Colin, Paris, 1902–1903 (and 1927) * ''Les navigations d'Ulysse'', Armand Colin, Paris, 1927–1929 (and 1971) *
La Résurrection d'Homère
', Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1930

References

People from Jura (department) 1864 births 1931 deaths École Normale Supérieure alumni French archaeologists French hellenists Diplomats for France 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians French classical scholars Members of the French School at Athens Senators of Jura (department) Homeric scholars Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts {{France-diplomat-stub