Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni (7 April 1942 – 29 March 2017) was a French director of research at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

in Paris. She was a specialist of Latin

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

and Republican and Imperial Roman history who published numerous research on the ruling local elites of the

Roman Republic The Roman Republic ( ) was the era of Ancient Rome, classical Roman civilisation beginning with Overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establis ...

and early Roman Empire. She also devoted much time on the history and epigraphy of

Ostia Antica Ostia Antica () is an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is near modern Ostia, southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies from the sea. The name ''Ostia'' (the pl ...

. A 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 ...

, she worked at the CNRS from December 1985 and headed the "Centre de recherche archéologique Jean Bérard" at the . She conducted archaeological excavations at

Megara Hyblaea Megara Hyblaea () – perhaps identical with Hybla Major – is an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near Augusta, Sicily, Augusta on the east coast, north-northwest of Syracuse, Italy, Syracuse, Italy, ...

(Sicily).

Bibliography

See her detailed bibliography on the site of the ANHIMA.

Scientific works

*''Les ''quaestores principis et candidati'' aux Ie–IIe de l’Empire'', Milan, 1973. * ''Les magistrats des cités italiennes de la seconde guerre punique à Auguste. Le Latium et la Campanie'', Rome, 1998, BEFAR 299.

Direction d'ouvrages

* ''Les élites de l’Italie péninsulaire des Gracques à Néron'', Naples-Rome, 1996. * ''Les élites de l’Italie péninsulaire de la mort de César à la mort de Domitien entre rupture et continuité. Classes sociales dirigeantes et pouvoir central, Actes du Colloque de Naples 6-8 février 1997'', Collection de l’EFR 271, Rome, 2000. * in collaboration with Laurent Lamoine and Frédéric Trément, ''Les élites et leurs facettes. Les élites locales dans le monde hellénistique et romain, Actes du colloque international de Clermont-Ferrand, 24-26 novembre 2000'', Collection ERGA n° 3 de PUPB en coédition with the École Française de Rome : Collection de l'EFR 309, Rome-Clermont-Ferrand, 2003. * in collaboration with Laurent Lamoine and Frédéric Trément, ''Autocélébration des élites locales dans le monde romain : contextes, images, textes (IIe s. av. J.-C. / IIIe s. ap. J.-C.), Actes du colloquee international des 21-23 novembre 2004'', Clermont-Ferrand, Collection ERGA, 2004. * in collaboration with Clara Berrendonner and Laurent Lamoine, ''Le quotidien municipal dans l'Occident romain'', Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, 2009.

University textbooks

* in collaboration with J.-P. Martin and A. Chauvot, ''Histoire romaine'', Collection « U », Armand Colin, Paris, 2001, 2003. * in collaboration with Maria Letizia Caldelli and Fausto Zevi, ''Épigraphie latine'', Armand Colin, Paris, 2006, .

Selection of articles

* « Octavie, épouse de Gamala, et la Bona Dea », ''MEFRA'', 1973, 85–2, p. 517-55
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* en collaboration avec Fausto Zevi, « Révision et nouveautés pour trois inscriptions d'Ostie », ''MEFRA'', 1976, 88–2, p. 607-63
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* « L'évergétisme des magistrats du Latium et de la Campanie des Gracques à Auguste à travers les témoignages épigraphiques », ''MEFRA'', 1990, 102–2, p. 699-72
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References

External links

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