Jean-Paul Brisson (11 September 1918 – 25 June 2006) was a French honorary professor of Latin language and civilisation at the

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. He devoted himself particularly to the social problems of antiquity,

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and classical poets. He participated with other colleagues committed to the left (

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, Charles Malamoud,

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, Jean Bottero) in a

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think tank organised by

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. This group took on an institutional form with the creation, in 1964, of the ''Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes'', which later became the ''Centre

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'', focusing more on the study of

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Works

*1949: ''Gloire et misère de l'Afrique chrétienne'', Bibliothèque chrétienne d'histoire *1958: ''Autonomisme et christianisme dans l'Afrique romaine, de Septime Sévère à l'invasion vandale'', É. de Boccard *1959: ''Spartacus'', *1966: ''Virgile, son temps et le nôtre'', François Maspero *1973: ''Carthage ou Rome'',

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*1992: ''Rome et l'âge d'or, de Catulle à Ovide, histoire d'un mythe'', La Découverte, *2005: ''Traité des Mystères d' Hilaire de Poitiers'', bilingual edition,

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References

External links

Rome et l'âge d'or. De Catulle à Ovide, vie et mort d'un mythe (compte rend)
on Persée
Spartacus by Jean-Paul Brisson
review on JSTOR

on La Découverte {{DEFAULTSORT:Brisson, Jean-Paul 20th-century French historians French scholars of Roman history 1918 births 2006 deaths