Jean Alaux (classical philologist)

Jean Alaux (* 1954 ) is a French classical philologist ( Graecist ).

After completing his studies, Alaux was a teacher (professeur agrégé) from 1978 to 1995. In 1993 he received a dissertation on family ties in Greek tragedy ( Filiations tragiques. Recherches autour de quelques figures de la filiation et de la philía familiale dans la tragédie grecque du 5e siècle, chez Eschyle, Sophocle et Euripide ) with Nicole Loraux at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales is doing her doctorate. In 1994 he obtained his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches with a thesis on the origin of Greek tragedy in the Homeric epic ( Origine et horizon tragiques. Recherches sur l'imaginaire tragique grec, ses racines homériques, sa postérité ). From 1995 to 1997 he was first professeur agrégé at the University of Valenciennes from 1997 to 2007 maître de conférences in Greek Studies (Greek language and literature) at the Stendhal University , in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Rennes 2 appointed .

Research focuses on the representation of identity and kinship in the Greek imaginary world, the tragedy of the 5th century from the perspective of historical anthropology , types of dialogue between tragedy, epic, lyrical poetry and novel ( représentations de l'identité et de la parenté dans l'imaginaire grec; théâtre tragique du 5e siècle, étudié dans la perspective de l'anthropologie historique; modalités du dialogue entre la tragédie, l'univers épique, la poésie lyrique et le roman ).

Fonts (selection)

• Le Liège et le filet. Filiation et lien familial dans la tragédie athénienne du Ve siècle av. J.-C. Editions Belin, “L'Antiquité au présent”, Paris 1995.
• Lectures tragiques d'Homère. Editions Belin, Paris 2007.
• Origine et horizon tragiques. Presses universitaires de Vincennes, Paris 2007.
• (Ed.): Les Phéniciennes. La famille d'Œdipe entre mythe et politique. Editions Belin, Paris 2007.
• Acting Myth: Athenian Drama. In: Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone (Eds.), A Companion to Greek Mythology. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2014, pp. 141-156.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean Alaux in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)