See also: Lévêque

Pierre Lévêque , born with Chambéry the August 11th 1921 and deceased the March 5th 2004, is a historian of the ancient Greece and hellenist.

Biography

Wire of an engineer, it passes his childhood in the port of Bordeaux. The reading of the Greek City of Gustave Glotz pushes it towards literary studies: it is received in 1940 with the National university of the street of Ulm then to the aggregation of letters in 1944. Member of the French School of Athens of 1947 with 1952, it studies in Greece the antiquated statuary of Délos and excavates the site of Thasos. He supports in 1955, under the direction of André Aymard, his major thesis, devoted to Pyrrhus, king of Épire - the minor one was devoted to the Athenian poet Agathon, under the direction of Louis Séchan.

It obtains then a station of assistant with the Sorbonne then with Lyon (1951). It becomes university lecturer at the university of Montpellier (1955) before being appointed professor, in 1957, at the university of Besancon, where it remains all his career. It gains the nickname of “red senior there”, because of its communist militancy . It creates there in 1968 a Center of old story, become then a unit of CNRS under the name of “Analyzes of the social formations of Antiquity”, then the Institute of sciences of Antiquity, and in 1970 the international Group of research on ancient slavery.