Jean-Louis Ferrary

Jean-Louis Ferrary (5 May 1948, Orléans) is a French historian, a specialist of ancient Rome.

Biographie

Born in 1948, Jean-Louis Ferrary entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1967 and obtained his agrégation in classical letters in 1970. A member of the École française de Rome from 1973 until 1976, it was then elected a lecturer at the Sorbonne and continued his career at the École pratique des hautes études, where he has been a lecturer (1983) and director of studies (since 1989). His lecture title was « Histoire des institutions et des idées politiques du monde romain ». He received his doctorate of Letters in 1987 after working under the direction of Pierre Grimal and Claude Nicolet. His thesis, published under the title Philhellénisme et impérialisme : aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique, is a milestone in the study of relations between Rome and the Greek world.[1]

Jean-Louis Ferrary is interested in the history of institutions, law and the laws of ancient Rome, in the history of ideas and the ancient political philosophy, in Greek and Latin epigraphy of Roman times, Latin philology and historiography.

He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2005 in the seat of Maurice Euzennat. He is a specialist of Polybius and Cicero.

References

  1. See the report by Jean Andreau: "Jean-Louis Ferrary, Philhellénisme et impérialisme : aspects idéologiques de la conquête romaine du monde hellénistique", Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 1992, vol. 47, n° 2, pp. 410-412 read online

Principal publications

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