Edmond Lévy (born 1934) is a French classical historian.

Biography

Originally a pupil of an

École normale supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...

(promotion 1956), an aggregate of letters, he was also a pupil of

École française d'Athènes The French School at Athens (french: École française d’Athènes, EfA; el, Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. History ...

, a school in

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where the French language is taught to students who are mainly from France. He is a specialist in Greek history and is a retired professor at Marc-Bloch University in Strasbourg,

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. He edits the ''Ktèma'' review.

Works

* ''Athènes devant la défaite de 404. Histoire d'une crise idéologique'', De Boccard, 1976 * ''La femme dans les sociétés antiques'',

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, 1983 * ''Le système palatial en Orient, en Grèce et à Rome'', De Boccard, 1987 * ''La Grèce au Ve siècle, de Clisthène à Socrate'', Seuil, 1995 * ''La codification des lois dans l'Antiquité'', De Boccard, 2000 * ''Sparte. Histoire politique et sociale jusqu'à la conquête romaine'', Seuil, 2003

External links

*In French: **https://web.archive.org/web/20051014161612/http://www.umr7044.cnrs.fr/ANNUAIRE/titulaires/EdmondLevy.html **https://web.archive.org/web/20060322095917/http://www.fnac.com/199331/rcwwwa/La-Grece-au-Veme-siecle-De-Clisthene-a-Socrate-Nouvelle-histoire-de-l-Antiquite {{DEFAULTSORT:Levy, Edmund 20th-century French historians Historians of antiquity 1934 births Living people École Normale Supérieure alumni Members of the French School at Athens