Benjamin-Constant Martha, also known under the name Constant Martha, (1820–1895) was a 19th-century French moralist and historian of ancient morality. A graduate of the École normale supérieure, agrégé de lettres and

docteur ès lettres Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or ') is a terminal degree in the humanities that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor ...

, he was professor of literature at the lycée de Strasbourg, then held the chair of Latin eloquence at the Sorbonne and professor at the Collège de France. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1872. He was

Jules Martha Joseph-Jules Martha (8 January 1853 – 7 April 1932) was a French scholar and archaeologist. Biography He was the son of Benjamin-Constant Martha. He studied at the École normale supérieure from 1872 to 1875 and earned a docteur ès lettre ...

's father and

Paul Girard Paul Frédéric Girard (23 March 1852, Paris – 1 July 1922, Paris) was a French Hellenistic period, Hellenist, archaeologist and epigrapher. Biography A student of the École Normale Supérieure, he obtained his Agrégation in France, agrégati ...

's stepfather.

Publications

*1854: ''De la Morale pratique dans les lettres de Sénèque'' (thesis
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*1854: ''Dionis philosophantis effigies'' (thèse complémentaire en latin) *1854: ''De la Morale pratique dans les lettres de Sénèque'' *1865: ''Les Moralistes sous l'Empire romain, philosophes et poètes'' :Includes La morale pratique dans les lettres de Sénèque. Un Poète stoïcien - Persia. La Vertu stoïque - Epictetus. L'Examen de conscience d'un empereur romain - Marcus Aurelius. La Prédication morale populaire - Dio Chrysostom. La Société romaine - Juvenal. Le Scepticisme religieux et philosophique -

Lucian Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore ...

. *1866: ''Les Sophistes grecs dans l’Empire romain'' *1869: ''Le Poème de Lucrèce : morale, religion, science'
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*1883: ''Études morales sur l'antiquité''. Includes: L'Éloge funèbre chez les Romains. Le Philosophe Carneades à Rome. Les Consolations dans l'Antiquité. L'Examen de conscience chez les anciens. Un Chrétien devenu paĭen. Un Paĭen devenu chrétien. *1884: ''La Délicatesse dans l'art'' *1896: ''Mélanges de littérature ancienne'' Incledes: L'Éducation des femmes grecques. Pindar. Les Romains à la comédie. Cicero and Lucretius. Augustus et les lettres. Sénèque.

Bibliography

* Paul Janet
'' Notice sur Benjamin-Constant Martha''
Cerf, Versailles, 1895, 16 p., Gallica * Jean-Yves Mariotte, « Benjamin Constant Martha », in ''Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne'', vol. 25, (p. 2533)

External links

Notice on Benjamin-Constant Martha
on Gallica {{DEFAULTSORT:Martha, Constant 19th-century French historians Academic staff of the Collège de France Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques École Normale Supérieure alumni Writers from Strasbourg 1820 births 1895 deaths