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Jacques Bompaire (16 January 1924 – 6 May 2009) was a 20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of
ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...
and
Greek literature Greek literature () dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving writte ...
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
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in 1947, he was elected a member of the
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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
Association Guillaume Budé The Association Guillaume Budé, named after the 16th century humanist Guillaume Budé, is a French cultural and learned society dedicated to the promotion of humanities. The current president of the society is the hellenist Jacques Jouanna. The s ...
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 MĂ©moires'', vol. VIII, (p. 79–86). * 1993 : « Diplomatique et rhĂ©torique Ă  l'Ă©poque de Michel VIII PalĂ©ologue, 1258-1282 », in Jean-Pierre Bardet and Madeleine Foisil (under the direction of), ''La vie, la mort, la foi, le temps, mĂ©langes offerts Ă  Pierre Chaunu'',
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, (p. 671–681) * * 2000 : ''Lucien Ă©crivain. Imitation et crĂ©ation'',
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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 ...

* ''Ĺ’uvres'', 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

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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 Ă  nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015, (p. 359–360)


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