Pierre Briant , born the September 30th 1940, with Angers, is a Historien French of the Antiquité. It is, since 1999, holder of the Pulpit Histoire and civilization of the world Achéménide and the empire of Alexandre with the Collège de France.

Principal works

Pierre Briant is the author of many works on Perse antiquity and Greek, it publishes inter alia:

• Antigone the One-eyed one. (Beginnings of its career and problems of the Parliament Macedonian) , Beautiful Letters, Paris, 1974

• Alexandre Large the , coll “do I That-know?” 622, PUF, Paris, 1974, 3rd ED. 1986, 4th ED. 1994, 5th revised edition 2002. 6th revised edition, 2005.

• country Kings, tributes and , Beautiful Letters, Paris, 1982

• State and pastors in the old Middle East , Paris, House of the Social sciences, and Cambridge (Cambridge University Near), 1982

• the Central Asia and close relation-Eastern kingdoms of the first millenium av.n.è. , Ed.Recherches on civilizations, Paris, 1984

• Of Greece to the East: Alexandre Large the , Coll.Découvertes/History, Gallimard, Paris, 1987; new edition, Paris, 2005

• Darius, Persians and the Empire , coll Discovered History, Gallimard, Paris 1992; 2nd edition 2001

• collaboration, the Greek world at traditional times I: Vè century , coll Clio News, PUF, 1995 direction of P.Briant and P.Lévêque

• History of the Persian Empire. De Cyrus with Alexandre , 1247p., Paris, Beech, 1996

• Bulletin of history achéménide II , Paris, ED. Thotm, Persika Collection 1,2001

• Darius in the shade of Alexandre , 666 p, Paris, Beech, 2003

Direction and coordonation of other work

It also coordinates the publication of many works whose collection Persika (Thotm editions), is the founder of the Global area network of Studies and Achéménides Research, of the Web site Achemenet (site of research and scientific documentations on the world achéménide), and of the virtual museum Achéménide.

See too

Internal bonds

• Persian Achéménides
• Alexandre Large the
• Collège de France

External bonds

• Site of Pierre Briant at the Collège de France