Georges Roux

Georges Roux (full name Georges Albert Ulysse Roux ; born September 19, 1919 in Sorgues ; died August 1, 2003 in Lyon ) was a French classical archaeologist .

Career

Georges Roux studied at the University of Lyon . After the agrégation in humanities in 1944, he was initially a teacher in Saint-Étienne and Lyon . During the following years as a teacher, the decision to devote himself to Greek antiquity matured, to the same extent to Greek literature and archaeological remains. In 1948 he became a member of the École française d'Athènes and remained so until 1956. The time in Greece was filled with primarily architectural research on building history in Delphi , at the Temple of Apollo near Bassae and in Corinth. He presented the results of his own research in 1957 with his doctoral thesis L'architecture de l'Argolide aux IVe et IIIe siècles avant J.-C. with which he received his PhD from the University of Paris . His secondary doctoral thesis was on Pausanias in Corinth - a bilingual edition of Book II, 1-15 of Pausanias with archaeological and topographical commentaries.

Back in France, Georges Roux first went to the University of Montpellier , then to the University of Lyon, where he was appointed Professor of Greek Literature and Archeology in 1961. He held the chair until he retired in 1985. Georges Roux is one of the founding members of the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée , a research institution of the Center national de la recherche scientifique , founded in 1975 by Jean Pouilloux in Lyon today it employs around 350 scientists from the fields of archeology, ancient history and ephigraphy, but also chemistry, geology, political science and architecture. He was also involved in founding the Lyon Center d'Archéologie classique .

Researches

During his Lyons years, Georges Roux was constantly involved in research in Greece, not only in Delphi, but also in the Peloponnese , Thasos , Delos and Cyprus . The Greek rotunda, the Tholos , was one of his preferred building types. So he examined in detail the tholoi of Delphi, of Epidaurus and the Arsinoeion donated by Arsinoë II on Samothrace . In particular, questions of roofing and the underlying carpenter technology were his focus. In Delphi he was mainly involved in the investigation and recovery of the building complex built under Attalus I in the north-east of the sanctuary until 1987 , but at the same time devoted his attention to all the other buildings of the sanctuary and also to the inscriptions.

Although his main interest was in the architecture of the Greek classical period , he showed perseverance and enthusiasm for the proto-Byzantine architecture of Cyprus as well. From 1965 - and thus almost from the beginning - until 1974 he worked for the French archaeological mission in Cyprus, which began in 1964. His last monograph was on the Basilica Kampanopetra in Salamis-Constantia on Cyprus.

Memberships and honors

Georges Roux became a corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1983 . He was a member of the Académie des Sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques , officer of the Order of the Phoenix , and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Archaeological Society of Athens .

Publications (selection)

• La Grèce. Arthaud, Paris 1957.
• Pausanias en Corinthie (Livre II, 1 à 15). Texts, traduction, commentaire archéologique et topographique. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1958.
• L'architecture de l'Argolide aux IVe et IIIe siècles avant J.-C. Two volumes. Boccard, Paris 1961.
• with Jean Pouilloux : Énigmes à Delphes. Boccard, Paris 1963.
• Delphi. Oracle and places of worship. Hirmer, Munich 1971 (French edition: Delphes, son oracle et ses dieux. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1976).
• L'Amphictionie, Delphes et le temple d'Apollon au IVe siècle. Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon 1979 ( digital version ).
• Fouilles de Delphes. Volume 2: Topographie et architecture. La Terrasse d'Attale I. Boccard, Paris 1987.
• Salamine de Chypre. Volume 15: La basilique de la Campanopétra. Boccard, Paris 1998 ( digitized ).

literature

• Gilbert Dagron : Allocution à l'occasion du décès de M. Georges Roux, correspondant français de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Volume 147, 2003, pp. 1085-1086 ( digitized version ).
• Marie-Christine Hellmann , Marguerite Yon : Georges Roux (19 septembre 1919 - 1 er août 2003). In: Revue archéologique . Nouvelle Série, Fasc. 2, 2003, pp. 361-366.