Francis Vian

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Francis Lucien Henri Vian (born June 15, 1917 in Privas , Département Ardèche , † August 16, 2008 ) was a French Graecist .

Life

Francis Vian, son of the teacher Victor Vian and his wife Augusta, née Graille, attended high schools (lycées) in Digne , Avignon and the Lycée du Parc in Lyon . He then studied Classical Philology at the University of Lyon . After acquiring the Agrégation de grammaire , he taught at the Lycée Ampère in Lyon in 1938 , in 1945 at the Lycée Marcelin-Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés , in 1946 at the Lycée Michelet in Vanves , and in 1947 at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris . At the same time he was working on his dissertation on gigantomachy (the thèse principale is dedicated to literary evidence, the thèse complémentaire is a repertoire of pictorial representations), with which he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1951 . In 1952 he was appointed professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand . From 1962 to 1968 he was doyen of the Faculté des Lettres. 1967 belonged to the circle that founded the Association des professeurs de langues anciennes de l'enseignement supérieur (APLAES). From 1967 to 1970 he was its first president. In 1968 he moved to the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines in Nanterre, from which the Université Paris X Nanterre emerged. In 1986 he retired.

Vian was Officier of the Légion d'honneur and Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . Since 1980 he has been a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Vian married Suzanne Stapfer in 1947, with whom he had two daughters and two sons.

Research priorities

Vian worked on Greek mythology (on the gigantomachy and the origin of Thebes in Kadmos and the divisions ) and on the mythological epic of Hellenism and late antiquity . In his mythological work he adopted the three-part model of functions (priest, warrior, peasant) in Indo-European society (French fonction tripartite ) from Georges Dumézil and tried to apply it to the triad of kings of Orchomenos (Eteocles, Phlegyas, Minyas) and im Demonstrate the myth of Typhon . However , he no longer went into the structuralist analysis and interpretation of myths, but turned to edition philology . In the Collections des universités de France series of the Parisian publishing house Les Belles Lettres, he published critical editions of the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes , the Posthomerica of Quintus of Smyrna , the Dionysiacs of Nonnos of Panopolis (an epic about the god Dionysus in 48 books) and the Argonautika Orphika , partly accompanied by studies on the history of transmission (Quintus von Smyrna, Argonautika Orphika ). He has also published on the reception of Greek poetry in the Italian Renaissance (with Angelo Poliziano ).

His students include Pierre Chuvin , Hélène Frangoulis and Bernard Gerlaud.

Fonts (selection)

  • A detailed list of publications can be found in: Domenico Accorinti, Pierre Chuvin (eds.): Des Géants à Dionysos. Mélanges de mythologie et de poésie grecques offerts à Francis Vian. Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2003 (Hellenica, 10).
  • La Guerre des Géants. Le Mythe avant l'époque hellénistique . C. Klincksieck, Paris 1952 (thèse principale).
  • Repertoire of the gigantomachies figurées dans l'art grec et romain. C. Klincksieck, Paris 1951 (thèse complémentaire).
  • Histoire de la tradition manuscrite de Quintus de Smyrne. PUF, Paris 1959.
  • Apollonios de Rhodes, Argonautiques, Chant III. Edition, commentaire et traduction. PUF, Paris 1961. - Review by Jean Irigoin , in: Revue des Études Grecques 76, 1963, pp. 494–495, (online).
  • Research on the Posthomerica de Quintus de Smyrne. C. Klincksieck, Paris 1963 (Études et commentaires, 30).
  • Les Origines de Thèbes. Cadmos et les Spartes. C. Klincksieck, Paris 1963 (Études et commentaires, 48).
  • Quintus de Smyrne, La Suite d'Homère. 3 volumes. Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres", Paris 1963, 1966, 1969. - (with French translation)
  • Apollonios de Rhodes, Argonautiques. 3 volumes. Société d'Édition “Les Belles Lettres”, Paris 1974, 1980, 1981 (Tome I: Chants I – II. Texts établi et commenté par Francis Vian et traduit par Émile Delage , 1974; Tome II: Chant III. Texts établi et commenté par Francis Vian et traduit par Émile Delage, 1980; Tome III: Chant IV. Texts établi et commenté par Francis Vian, traduit par Émile Delage et Francis Vian, 1981).
  • Nonnos de Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques. Sous la direction de Francis Vian. 19 vol. Société d'Édition “Les Belles Lettres”, Paris 1976-2006 (texts établi et traduit par Francis Vian: Tome I: ch. I – II, 1976; Tome IX: ch. XXV – XXIX, 1990; Tome VII : ch. XVIII-XIX, 1992; Tome VIII: ch. XX-XXIV, 1994; Tome V: ch. XI-XIII, 1995; Tome X: ch. XXX-XXXII, 1997; Tome XVIII: ch. XLVIII, 2003 ; with Marie-Christine Fayant, Tome XIX: Index général des noms propres, 2007). - (Critical textual edition and French translation; in addition to Francis Vian and under his direction, the remaining volumes were edited by his students Pierre Chuvin, Gisèle Chrétien, Bernard Gerlaud, Joelle Gerbeau, Hélène Frangoulis, Bernadette Simon, Marie-Christine Fayant) - Review by Tome I and II by Georges Nachtergael, in: L'Antiquité Classique 51, 1982, pp. 414-415, (online).
  • La Tradition manuscrite des Argonautiques orphiques. In: Revue d'Histoire des Textes 9, 1979, pp. 1-46.
  • L'epopee grecque. In: Actes du Xe congres de l'Association Guillaume Budé (Toulouse, 8-12 avril 1978). Paris 1980, pp. 49-81.
  • Lexique de Quintus de Smyrne. Société d'Édition “Les Belles Lettres”, Paris 1984.
  • Les Argonautiques orphiques . Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres", Paris 1987, ISBN 2-251-00389-4 . - (critical edition with French translation)
  • with Mary B. Moore:  Gigantes . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume IV, Zurich / Munich 1988, pp. 191-270.
  • Théogamies et sotériologie chez Nonnos. In: Journal des savants 1994, pp. 197-233, (online).
  • Ange Politien lecteur des poètes grecs. In: Ugo Criscuolo, Riccardo Maisano (eds.), Synodia. Studia humanitatis Antonio Garzya septuagenario from amicis atque discipulis dicata. M. D'Auria Editore, Naples 1997, pp. 981-992.
  • Notes critiques et exégétiques aux hymnes orphiques. In: Revue des études anciennes 106, 2004, pp. 133–146.
  • Domenico Accorinti (Ed.): L'Epopée posthomérique. Recueil d'études. Ed. dell'Orso, Alessandria 2005 (Hellenica, 17), table of contents. - Collection of small fonts

literature

  • Domenico Accorinti, Pierre Chuvin (ed.): Des Géants à Dionysos. Mélanges de mythologie et de poésie grecques offerts à Francis Vian. (= Hellenica 10) Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La triade des rois d'Orchomène: Étéoclès, Phlégyas, Minyas. In: Hommages à Georges Dumézil. Bruxelles, 1960 (Collection Latomus, 45), pp. 215-224; The mythe de Typhée and the problem of ses origines orientales. In: Éléments orientaux dans la religion grecque ancienne (Colloque de Strasbourg, 22–24 May 1958). PUF, Paris 1960, pp. 17-37. See C. Scott Littleton: The New Comparative Mythology. An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil. Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1966, pp. 168-170.
  2. ↑ http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/reg_0035-2039_1963_num_76_361_3760_t2_0494_0000_2
  3. ↑ http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/antiq_0770-2817_1982_num_51_1_2078_t1_0414_0000_1?luceneQuery=%2B%28authorId%3Apersee_253247+antiauthorId+3A%22auteur%qauthorId+3A%22auteur%AauthorId+3A%22auteur%AauthorId+3A%22auteur% scrip_598% 22% 29 & words = persee_253247 & words = auteur% 20antiq_1005 & words = auteur% 20scrip_598
  4. ↑ http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jds_0021-8103_1994_num_2_1_1579
  5. ↑ http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/casalini06/05913770.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Vian, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vian, Francis Lucien Henri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Privas , Ardèche
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2008