Robert Turcan

Robert Turcan (born June 22, 1929 in Paris , † January 16, 2018 in Craponne ) was a French archaeologist .

Turcan studied from 1952 at the École normal supérieure up to the Agrégation 1955. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the École française de Rome and taught from 1957 to 1987 at the University of Lyon - initially Latin studies , from 1974 as professor of provincial Roman archeology . From 1987 until his retirement in 1994 he was Professor of Roman and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne .

From 1990, Turcan was a full member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Publications (selection)

Les sarcophages romains à représentations dionysiaques. Essai de chronologie et d'histoire religieuse . de Boccard, Paris 1966 (= dissertation).
Mithra et le Mithriacisme. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1979, ISBN 978-2251380230 .
Héliogabale et le sacre du soleil. Albin Michel, Paris 1985, ISBN 978-2226023162 .
The cultes orientaux dans le monde romain. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-251-38001-9 .
- English: The cults of the Roman Empire. Blackwell, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-631-20046-0 .
Messages d'outre-tombe. L'iconographie des sarcophages romains. de Boccard, Paris 1999.
L'art romain. Flammarion, Paris 1995, ISBN 9782080101877 .
Constantin et so temps. Le baptême ou la pourpre? Faton, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2878440850 .
Vivre à la Cour des Césars. Belles Lettres, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2251338309 .
Le temps de Marc Aurèle (121-180). Une crise des esprits et de la "paix romaine". Faton, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2878441598 .

Nicole Blanc, André Buisson (ed.): Imago Antiquitatis. Religions et iconographie du monde romain. Mélanges offerts à Robert Turcan. de Boccard, Paris 1999 (pp. 11-34 list of publications).