Jacques Bompaire (16 January 1924 – 6 May 2009) was a 20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of

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and

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of the Roman and Byzantine period.

Biography

A former student of the

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(class 1943), he volunteered in 1944 for the remainder of World War II. Received first to the

Agrégation de Lettres Classiques In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...

in 1947, he was elected a member of the

French School at Athens 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 ...

in 1948. He devoted his doctoral research on

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 ...

, and in 1956 supported a State thesis entitled ''Lucien écrivain. Imitation et création''. His complementary thesis, the same year, is devoted in turn to the ''Praktika de Xéropotamou'', he published and commented census acts regarding land area of Xeropotamou monastery on Mount Athos during the

Byzantine period The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

.Thèse complémentaire de lettres, notice Sudoc
He presided the

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from 1989 to 1996, then became its honorary president until his death. He was President of the from 1982 to 1990.

Main works

Festschrift

''Opôra, la belle saison de l'hellénisme: Études de littérature antique''. Ancient literature studies offered to the rector Jacques Bompaire, Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2001 (complete bibliography inserted).

Author

* 1974 : ''La paléographie grecque et byzantine'', introduction in collaboration with

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, Colloques internationaux du CNRS, n° 559, Paris, 21–25 October 1974 * 1981 : « Photius et la Seconde Sophistique, after the ''Bibliothèque'' », in ''Travaux et Mémoires'', vol. VIII, (p. 79–86). * 1993 : « Diplomatique et rhétorique à l'époque de Michel VIII Paléologue, 1258-1282 », in Jean-Pierre Bardet and Madeleine Foisil (under the direction of), ''La vie, la mort, la foi, le temps, mélanges offerts à Pierre Chaunu'',

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, (p. 671–681) * * 2000 : ''Lucien écrivain. Imitation et création'',

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Scientific editor

Works by
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 ...

* ''Œuvres'', text established and translated into French by Jacques Bompaire, Paris, Les Belles Lettres,

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: ** Volume 1, 2003, (includes ''Phalaris A'', ''Phalaris B'', ''Hippias'', ''Dionysos'', ''Héraclès '', ''À propos de l'ambre ou des cygnes'', ''Éloge de la mouche'', ''Nigrinos'', ''Vie de Démonax'' and ''La salle''). ** Volume 2, 2003, (includes ''Éloge de la patrie'', ''Les « longue-vie »'', ''Histoires vraies A'', ''Histoires vraies B'', ''Qu'il ne faut pas croire à la légère à la calomnie'', ''Le jugement des voyelles'', ''Le banquet ou les Lapithes'', ''Le pseudosophiste ou le soléciste'', ''La traversée pour les enfers ou le tyran'' and ''Zeus confondu''). ** Volume 3, 2003, (includes ''Zeus tragédien'', ''Le songe ou le coq'', ''Prométhée'', ''Icaroménippe ou l'homme qui va au-dessus des nuages'' and ''Timon ou le misanthrope''). ** Volume 4, 2008, (includes ''Charon ou les observateurs'', ''Les vies des philosophes à l'encan'', ''Les ressuscités ou les pêcheurs'' and ''La double accusation ou les tribunaux'').

References

Bibliography

Patrick Cabanel Patrick Cabanel (born 22 February 1961) is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in ''Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes''. He mainly writes on the history of religious min ...

, « Jacques Bompaire », in Patrick Cabanel et

André Encrevé André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation o ...

(dir.), ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015, (p. 359–360)

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