François Chamoux

François Chamoux (born April 4, 1915 in Mirecourt , Vosges , † October 21, 2007 in Paris ) was a French ancient historian , classical archaeologist and classical philologist .

Chamoux attended high schools in Chartres and Metz and the Lycée Henri IV in Paris and studied at the École normal supérieure from 1934, graduating from the Agrégé des lettres in classical languages ​​in 1938. He then did his military service in World War II (for which he did the Croix de Guerre with a silver star) and was seriously wounded in 1941. From 1943 to 1948 he was at the École française d'Athènes . He then worked as an assistant at the University of Lille and at the Sorbonne and a teacher at a Paris high school (Lycée). In 1952 he received his doctorate on Cyrene under the Battiades at the Sorbonne and the Charioteer of Delphi and was then professor in Nancy and from 1960 to 1983 professor of Greek literature and civilization at the Sorbonne.

He also wrote complete accounts of Greek cultural and art history and a biography of Marcus Antonius, translated into German . He was considered both an excellent connoisseur of Greek art and ancient Greek poetry (especially epigrams ). As a Homer connoisseur, he regularly took part in the symposia in Chios.

He excavated a lot in Greece (already in his time at the École francaise in Athens in the 1940s), including in Delphi , Thasos , the colonies of Cyrene in Libya .

Since 1981 he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . 1974 to 1987 he was editor of the Revue des Études grecques .

Fonts (selection)

• The Art of the Greeks, Kohlhammer 1967, 2nd edition 1978
  • French original: Art Grec, Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts 1966
• Marcus Antonius: the last ruler of the Greek Orient, Gernsbach: Katz 1989
  • French original: Marc Antoine, dernier prince de l'Orient grec, Paris, Arthaud 1986
• Greek cultural history, Droemer / Knauer, Muenchen 1966 (series: The Great Cultures)
  • French original: La civilization grecque de l'époque archaïque et classique, Arthaud, Paris 1963 (Volume 2 of the series: Les grandes civilizations)
• La civilization hellénistique, Paris: Arthaud 1981
• Cyrène sous la monarchie des Battiades, Paris, De Boccard 1953 (dissertation)
• La Sculpture de la Grèce antique, les musées d'Athènes, Paris: A. Michel 1968
• L'Aurige. Fouilles de Delphes. Tome IV, Monuments figurés: Sculpture - 5th Paris 1955

He also wrote the general introduction to a French edition by Diodorus (Bibliothèque historique, Paris, Les belles lettres 1993) and a commentary on the Franco-Greek edition of Pausanias' description of Greece (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, from 1992).

literature

• André Laronde, Jean Leclant (ed.): Journée d'hommage à François Chamoux (Mirecourt 1915 - Paris 2007) , Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris 2010

Web links

• Entry in Encyclopaedia Universalis
• Literature by and about François Chamoux in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)