Paul Veyne

Paul Veyne , born on June 13rd 1930 with Aix-en-Provence, is an archeologist and historian French, specialist in the ancient Rome. Former student of the National university, member of the French School of Rome (1955-1957), he is professor emeritus with the Collège de France.

Biography

Resulting from an popular environment, which it defines itself as " inculte" , it éprend of archeology and history by chance, at the eight years age, while discovering on a Celtic site, near the village to Cavaillon, a point of amphora. Roman civilization being, in the medium where it grows, most known, it is with it that it is interested in particular. The family having moved with Lille, it assiduously attends the Roman collections of the archaeological museum where it is made locate by the conservative who takes it under his wing. He affirms not to be himself interested in the Greeks or the Romans by humanism, nor even by particular admiration, but just by the chance of his discovery of child.

Unloaded to Paris to undertake its khâgne, he says to have undergone a shock in front of the low-relief celebrating the release of the city in bottom of Boul' Mich' and is registered with the Communist party which he will leave four years later without ever to have had true political conviction.

On the other hand, the ill treatment of the colonists towards the Algerians revolts it very as much as the atrocities made by the Nazis. It is for Paul Veyne a new shock. But once again, the shock is neither social nor pro-proletarian, but moral.

In 1975 it enters to the Collège de France thanks to the support of Raymond Aron (then given up by its old dolphin Pierre Bourdieu) which wants to see in this normalien caustic that which will deal with its work after its death. But Paul Veyne forgets to quote his name at the time of his inaugural lesson, which Aron does not forgive him. " For Aron, it was a terrible shock, the sign of my ingratitude. And as from this day, it was put to persecute me after me to have made elect… ". It remains there in activity of 1975 to 1998 holder of the pulpit of history of Rome.

Paul Veyne currently lives with Bédoin, in the Vaucluse.

Work

Paul Veyne continuous to publish works where, for a new writing of the history, it mixes the scholarship with the witty remarks, the values nietzschéennes (in particular through its studies of the circus games) with an approach of the object drawn at Michel Foucault.

He also carries out a reflection on the emergence and the victory of the Christianisme in the Roman Empire, problems which are the subject of its last book published in 2007 When our world became Christian (312-394) .

did the Greeks believe in their myths? Test on constituent imagination is its most known work of the general public.

It was also interested in contemporary poetry with Rene Char which it personally knew and on which he wrote and published two books.

Judgments on Paul Veyne

A little later I had greatest intellectual experience of my life by reading the dazzling book of Paul Veyne, the bread and the circus Jon Elster, in the introduction which he wrote for his work published in French the plowman and his children .

Rewards

2007 : Price of the Senate of the book of history

Publications

Works

How the history is written: test of epistemology , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “historical Universe”, 1970; rééd. increased by “Foucault revolutionizes the history”, 1978. ; rééd. shortened followed by “Foucault revolutionizes the history” in the collection “Point-history”, 1979. ; “Point-history”, 1996.
with Roger Will wander, Georges Ville (1929-1967). In memoriam , Aix-en-Provence, P. Veyne, 1972.
Bread and the circus. Historical sociology of a political pluralism , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “historical Universe”, 1976. ; rééd. in the collection “Point-history”, 1995.
the Inventory of the differences. Inaugural lesson at the Collège de France , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, 1976.
the Roman erotic Elegy. Love, poetry and the Occident , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “Pierre sharp”, 1983. ; rééd. in did the collection “Point-history”, 2003.
the Greeks believe in their myths? Test on constituent imagination , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “work”, 1983. ; rééd. in the collection “Point-history”, 1992.
collaboration with History of the private life , vol. I, Paris, Editions of the Threshold, 1987.
Rene Tank in his poems , Paris, Gallimard, “NRF tests”, 1990. ; rééd. in the collection “Such”, 1995.
the Roman Company , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “work”, 1991. ; rééd. increased by a preliminary text in the collection “Point-history”, 2001.
the Daily newspaper and interesting it. Discussions with Catherine Darbo-Peschanski , Paris, the Beautiful letters, 1995. ; rééd. Paris, Hatchet, Plural, 1997. ; 2006.
with François Lissarrague and Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Mysteries of gynécée the , Paris, Gallimard, “the time of the images”, 1998.
Sex and capacity in Rome , foreword of Lucien Jerphagnon, Paris, Tallandier, 2005. Collection of articles previously publ. in the review the History (1978-2004). ; rééd. in the collection “Point-history”, 2007.
the Empire gréco-Roman , Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “work”, 2005. Collection of articles increased and altered previously published in various reviews (2000-2004). ; rééd. Paris, Editions France leisures, 2006.
with Laurent Greilsamer, Rene Tank , Paris, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Culturesfrance, “Authors”, 2007.
When our world became Christian (312-394) , Paris, Éditions Albin Michel, “Ideas”, 2007.
Sénèque. An introduction , foreword of Lucien Jerphagnon, follow-up of letter 70 of the Letters in Lucilius , Paris, Tallandier, “Texto”, 2007.

Editions

Sénèque, selected Works: Talks. Letters with Lucilius , established edition and translation re-examined by Paul Veyne, Paris, Robert Laffont, “Books”, 1993. : rééd. 1998.
with Marie-Claude Char, Rene Tank, Sorgue and other poems , full texts; text established according to the final edition and the original editions, edition, foreword and notes establish by Marie-Claude Char and Paul Veyne, Paris, Hachette, “Traditional Hatchet. Poetry XXe century”, 1994. (1 - Text; 2 - File of the professor)

Forewords

in Machiavel, the Prince , ( It Principle ) followed extracts of the political Works ( Operates politiche ) and of a choice of the familiar Lettres ( Lettere familiari ), translated from Italian by Gohory, All Saints' day Guiraudet and Edmond Barincou, Paris, Gallimard, “Folio”, 1980. ; rééd. 1988. ; rééd. “Traditional Folio”, 2007. * at Peter Brown, Genesis of late Antiquity , ( The Making off late Antiquity ), translated from English by Aline Rousselle, Paris, Gallimard, “Library of the stories”, 1983. ; rééd. Paris, the Large book of the month, 1999.
in Sénèque, Of the peace of the heart , ( De Tranquillitate animi ) translated from Latin by Colette Lazam, Marseilles, Shores, “Small library Shores”, 1988. ; rééd. 1993.
in Elisabeth Dressmaker, Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Remarks collected by Elisabeth Dressmaker , Paris, Herscher, 1990. : rééd. 2003.
with the prayer. “Anthems of Orphée” , (“orphic Anthems”) translated and presented by Pascal Charvet, Paris, Nile Editions, “the cabinet of curiosities”, 1995.
in Peter Green, Of Alexandre with Actium. Division of the Empire to the triumph of Rome , ( Alexander to Actium. The Historical Evolution off the Hellenistic Age ) translated from English by Odile Itches, Paris, Robert Laffont, “Books”, 1997.
in Gerard Degeorge, Palmyre. Caravan metropolis , Paris, Editions HMSO, 2001.
in Paul Zanker, an art for the pleasure of the directions. The illustrated world of Dionysos and Aphrodite in art hellenistic , ( Eine Kunst für die Sinne. Zur Bilderwelt of Dionysos und DER Aphrodite ) translated from German by Cecile Michaud, Paris, G. Monfort, “Imago mundi”, 2001.

Translation

Christian Meier, the Policy and grace. Political anthropology of the Greek beauty , ( Politik und Anmut ), translated from German by Paul Veyne, Paris, Editions of the Threshold, “Work”, 1987.

External bond

Paul Veyne on the site of the college of France

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