Victor Bérard (;

Morez Morez () is a former commune of the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Hauts de Bienne.Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, 13 November 1931) was a French diplomat and politician. Today, he is still renowned for his works about

Hellenistic In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

studies and

geography of the Odyssey Events in the main sequence of the ''Odyssey'' (excluding the narrative of Odysseus's adventures) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca (island), Ithaca and its neighbours). Incidental mentions of Tro ...

. Bérard's "''L'Angleterre et l'impérialisme''" was translated into English and published in 1906 as "British imperialism and commercial supremacy" (Longmans, Green, London, New York).

Bibliography

L'Angleterre et l'Impérialisme
Armand Colin, Paris, 1900
''Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée''
(1902–1903, re-ed. 1927), Armand Colin, Paris, 1902–1903 (and 1927) * ''Les navigations d'Ulysse'', Armand Colin, Paris, 1927–1929 (and 1971) *
La Résurrection d'Homère
', Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1930

References

People from Jura (department) 1864 births 1931 deaths École Normale Supérieure alumni French archaeologists French hellenists French diplomats 19th-century French historians 20th-century French historians French classical scholars Members of the French School at Athens Senators of Jura (department) Homeric scholars Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts {{France-diplomat-stub