Robert Étienne (; 18 January 1921 – 9 January 2009) was a 20th-century French historian of

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

Career

A student of the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

and agrégé of history, Robert Étienne was member of the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

from 1947 to 1949. In 1958, he defended a doctoral thesis on the imperial cult in the Iberian Peninsula from

Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (), was the founder of the Roman Empire, who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in A ...

Diocletian Diocletian ( ; ; ; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia. As with other Illyri ...

. Apart from a passage at the CNRS as research attaché, he spent his entire career at the

University of Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a public research university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are al ...

as an assistant, lecturer and teacher. He headed the Centre Pierre Paris, a unit associated with the CNRS and the French mission in Portugal. Robert Étienne won the

Prix Broquette-Gonin The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française. It rewarded four disciplines: history, literature, philosophy and poetry. A separate prize was awarded by subject. Prix Broquette-Gonin (history) The prix Broque ...

of the Académie française in 1962 and the Prix Thérouanne of the same Académie in 1967. In 1988 he was elected corresponding member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

and full member in 1999.

Publications

*1958: ''Le culte impérial dans la Péninsule ibérique d'Auguste à Dioclétien'', Paris, BEFAR, *1960: ''Le quartier Nord-Est de Volubilis'' *1962: ''Bordeaux antique (in collaboration with P. Barrère)'' *1966: ''La vie quotidienne à Pompéi'', . *1970: ''Le siècle d'Auguste'' *1973: ''Les Ides de Mars : l'assassinat de César ou de la dictature ?'' *1986: ''Ausone ou les ambitions d'un notable aquitain'' *1987: ''Pompéi : La cité ensevelie'', collection «

Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an Collection (publishing), editorial collection of Book illustration, illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in Pocket edition, ...

» (nº 16), série Archéologie. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, new edition in 2009 **Trad. into English by Caroline Palmer – ''Pompeii: The Day a City Died'', "

Abrams Discoveries Abrams may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Abrams (surname), a list of notable people with the surname Places United States * Abrams, Wisconsin, a town * Abrams (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Abrams Mountain, Colorado * Abr ...

" (New York: Harry N. Abrams) & 'New Horizons' (London: Thames & Hudson), 1992 *1997: ''Jules César'', Paris

References

External links

Robert Étienne
on the site of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Robert Étienne
on the site of the Académie française
Professeur Robert Etienne, ''La vie quotidienne à Pompéi'' (compte rendu)
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Etienne, Robert Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) 20th-century French historians French scholars of Roman history École Normale Supérieure alumni Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1921 births People from Gironde 2009 deaths Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux