Pierre Briant
Pierre Briant | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 September 1940 |
| Nationality |  French |
| Alma mater | University of Poitiers |
| Known for | From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Iranian Studies |
| Institutions | Collège de France |
Pierre Briant (born 30 September 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France (1999 onwards), Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of the website achemenet.com.[1]
He studied History at the University of Poitiers (1960–1965), and reached his doctorat d'État in 1972.
His works deal mainly with the Achaemenid Empire, and related matters as Alexander the Great or the Hellenistic Era.
In the words of Matthew Stolper, Briant "has shown a generation of scholars once isolated from each other that they are members of a common intellectual project of great consequence."[2]
Works
[edit]- Antigone le Borgne (Les Débuts de sa Carrière et les Problèmes de l'Assemblée Macédonienne) (1973) - doctoral thesis.
- Alexandre le Grand (1974, 2005)
- Rois, Tributs et Paysans, Études sur les Formations Tributaires du Moyen-Orient Ancien (1982)
- Etat et Pasteurs au Moyen-Orient Ancien' in Production Pastorale et Société (1982)
- L'Asie Centrale et les Royaumes Proche-orientaux du Premier Millénaire (c. VIIIe-IVe s. av. n. è.) (1984)
- "Pouvoir central et polycentrisme culturel dans l'Empire achéménide (Quelques réflexions et suggestions)", in Achaemenid History I: Sources,structures and synthesis (ed. Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg), (1987)
- "Institutions perses et histoire comparatiste dans l'historiographie grecque", in Achaemenid History II: The Greek sources (eds. H. Sancisi-Weerdenbur & Amélie Kuhrt) (1987)
- De la Grèce à l'Orient : Alexandre le Grand, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 27), série Histoire. Paris: Gallimard (1987; new edition in 2005, under the title Alexandre le Grand : De la Grèce à l'Inde[3])
- Alexander the Great: The Heroic Ideal, 'New Horizons' series, London: Thames & Hudson (1996)
- Alexander the Great: Man of Action, Man of Spirit, "Abrams Discoveries" series, New York: Harry N. Abrams (1996)
- "Ethno-classe dominante et populations soumises dans l'Empire achéménide: le cas de l'Égypte", in Achaemenid History III: Method and Theory (eds. A. Kuhrt & H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg) (1988)
- Darius : Les Perses et l'Empire, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 159), série Histoire. Paris: Gallimard (1992)
- Dans les Pas des Dix-Mille (ed) (1995)
- Histoire de l'Empire Perse. De Cyrus à Alexandre (1996) - in English, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (2002).
- Darius dans l'Ombre d'Alexandre (2003)
- Lettre ouverte à Alexandre le Grand (2008)
- Alexandre des Lumières. Fragments d'histoire européenne (2012)
- Alexandre. Exégèse des lieux communs, Paris, Gallimard (2016)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Achemenet.com
- ^ Uchicago.edu Archived 2006-09-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Alexandre le Grand : De la Grèce à l'Inde, collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 27)". gallimard.fr (in French). Éditions Gallimard. 2005. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- Briant's page at the Collège de France
- Iranheritage.org
- Honorary Degree at the Chicago University [clarification needed]
External links
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Categories:
- People from Angers
- 1940 births
- Academic staff of the Collège de France
- Living people
- 20th-century French historians
- 21st-century French historians
- Corresponding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- French Iranologists
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- French male non-fiction writers
- Corresponding fellows of the British Academy