Jean-Michel Roddaz (29 February 1948,

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After ) is a French academic and historian, a specialist of

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, particularly of the Republican and Augustan periods.

Biography

Roddaz became an agrégé d'histoire in 1972 then a

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(''Essai sur les sources du Principat augustéen'' under the direction of Robert Etienne, 1976). He was assistant of ancient history at the University of Pau between 1974 and 1979. He has an habilitation to direct research (''Marcus Agrippa'', 1984) after he was a residing member of the

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between 1979 and 1981. He was a lecturer and professor at the University of Pau from 1982 to 1988 and then became Professor of Ancient History at the

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in 1988. He participated in the work ''Histoire Romaine, Tome I. Des Origines à Auguste'' (2000) under the direction of

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and in collaboration with

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and Giovanni Brizzi, writing the last two chapters (''Les chemins vers la dictature'' and ''L'héritage''), from

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in the year -59 BC to the suicides of

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and Cleopatra in -30 BC, leading the way for the

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to Octavian, the future

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Works

*1984: ''Marcus Agrippa'', BEFAR, n° 252, Rome
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*1991: Édition commentée des livres L-LI de lHistoire romaine'' de

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, CUF, Paris, (in collaboration with M.-L. Freyburger) *1993: ''Les Racines de l’Aquitaine'', Bordeaux, (in collaboration with L. Maurin and J.-P. Bost). *1994: Édition commentée des livres LXVIII-XLIX de l''Histoire romaine'' de

, CUF, Paris, (in collaboration with M.-L. Freyburger) *2000: ''Histoire Romaine, Tome I. Des Origines à Auguste'', Fayard, Paris, (under the direction of

). *2004: ''Guide archéologique d’Aquitaine'' (in collab.), Bordeaux *2014: ''Hérode, Le roi architecte'' (in collaboration with J.-C. Golvin),

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, Arles

References

External links

Roddaz (Jean-Michel). Marcus Agrippa. (compte rendu)
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Marcus Agrippa (monographie)
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Réponse de Jean-Michel Roddaz etc.
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