Pierre Boyancé

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Pierre Boyancé (born September 13, 1900 in Annecy , † September 20, 1976 in Six-Fours , Var ) was a French classical scholar .

Boyancé began studying Classical Philology in 1921 at the École normal supérieure (ENS) and in 1924 acquired the agrégation de lettres classiques . This was followed by a stay at the École française de Rome from 1924 to 1926. He then taught from 1928 to 1944 as maître de conférence , then as professor of Latin language and literature at the Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux and headed the Revue des études anciennes . He completed the doctorat d'État in 1936 with a thèse principale on the muse cult of the Greek philosophers and a thèse secondaire on the Somnium Scipionis . From 1945 he was a professor at the Sorbonne . From 1959 he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , from 1960 to 1970 director of the École française de Rom e.

The focus was on philosophy ( Cicero , Lucretius and Epicurus ) and religion in Rome and the cult of the muses in Greek philosophy (especially in Plato ) as a religious metaphor for the phenomenon of inspiration .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Etudes sur le Songe de Scipion . Bordeaux, 1936 (Sur Cicéron, République , VI).
  • Le culte des muses chez les philosophes grecs . Toulouse, 1937, reprint: de Boccard, 1972.
  • La religion astrale de Platon à Cicéron , in: Revue des études grecques, t. LXV, n ° 306-308, 1952.
  • Lucrèce et l'épicurisme . PUF, Paris 1963.
  • Épicure . PUF, Paris 1969.
  • Études sur l'humanisme cicéronien . Bruxelles, Latomus, 1970 (collection of articles from 1936 to 1969).
  • Études sur la religion romaine . Rome, diffusion de Boccard, 1972 (collection of articles from 1928 to 1966).

literature

  • Mélanges de philosophie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes offerts à Pierre Boyancé. École Française de Rome, Rome 1976 (Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 22), table of contents
  • Félix Lecoy, in: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 120.3, 1976, 437-440, online (obituary)
personal data
SURNAME Boyancé, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Annecy
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1976
Place of death Six-Fours, Var