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Pierre Grimal

Pierre Grimal, born in Paris on 21 November 1912 , died in Paris on 11 October 1996 , is a historian and a Latinist French. Passionate about Roman civilization , he did much to promote the cultural heritage of ancient Rome , both among specialists and the general public.

He was married to Claude-Edmond Magny , whose real name Edmonde Vinel, and the father of the Egyptologist Nicolas Grimal.

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Admitted to the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1933, received third in the aggregation of Classics in 1935 , he was a member of the French School in Rome (1935-1937) and as practiced in Latin teacher in high school in Rennes , then as professor of Latin language and civilization in the faculties of Caen , Bordeaux , and finally at the Sorbonne University for thirty years.

He published studies on Roman civilization, including many books published by Que sais-je, translations of Latin classics ( Cicero , Seneca , Tacitus , Plautus , Terence ). Upon retirement, he also published biographies and historical fiction romanticized (Memoirs of T. Pomponius Atticus , Memoirs of Agrippina , The Trial of Nero ), more for the general public.

At the end of his life, he campaigned for the preservation of humanities education in secondary education.

Works

All publishers are listed in Paris

Dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology, published by PUF , 1951, 5th edition in 1976
Greek and Latin novels, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade , 1958
The century of Scipio, Rome and Hellenism at the time of the Punic Wars, Aubier, 2nd edition 1975
Latin literature, PUF Que sais-je n 376, 1965
Greek mythology, PUF Que sais-je n 582, 9th edition in 1978
The art of gardening, PUF Que sais-je n 618, 3rd edition 1974
Roman cities, PUF Que sais-je n 657, first edition 1954, seventh edition in 1990
The Augustan Age, PUF Que sais-je n 676, 1965
In the footsteps of the Caesars, Hachette, 1955
Horace , Editions du Seuil, 1955
Roman civilization, Arthaud, 4th edition in 1970
Italy found, PUF, 1979
We leave for Rome, PUF, 3rd edition 1977
Love in Rome, Belles Lettres, 1979
Mythologies, Cambridge, 1964
World History of Women, New Librairie de France, 1965
Study timeline Ciceronian, Belles Lettres, 1977
Essay on the poetics of Horace, Paris SEDES, 1968
The student handbook Latinist, PUF, 1971
The memoirs of T. Pomponius Atticus, Belles Lettres, 1976 ( ISBN 2251334025 )
The civil war of Petronius , in his dealings with the Pharsalia, Belles Lettres, 1977
The Lyricism in Rome, PUF, 1978
Seneca, or consciousness of the Empire, Belles Lettres, 1978
The ancient theater, PUF Que sais-je n 1732, 1978
Quercy Pierre Grimal, Arthaud, 1978
Seneca, PUF Que sais-je n 1950, 1981
Jerome Carcopino , a historian at the service of humanism (with Cl and P. Carcopino Oubliac), Belles Lettres, 1981
Rome, centuries and days, Arthaud, 1982
Virgil or the second birth of Rome, Arthaud, 1985
Rome, literature and history , French School of Rome, 1986
Cicero, Fayard, 1986
Errors of freedom, Belles Lettres, 1989
Tacitus, Fayard, 1990
Marcus Aurelius
The memoirs of Agrippina , Editions De Fallois, 1992
The trial of Nero Editions Of Fallois
Short history of mythology and gods, Editions Fernand Nathan, 1954
Rome and Love, Robert Laffont, 2007, ( ISBN 9782221106297 ), a compilation of many earlier texts, articles and lectures, and the reissue of:
- Matrona, Belles Lettres, 1985
- The art of gardening,, Que sais-je, 1974
- Memory T. Pomponius Atticus, Belles Lettres, 1976

Translation (from Latin to French)

Frontinus , De aquae ductu Vrbis Romae Belles Lettres, 1944
Petronius , The Satyricon , Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade , 1958
Apuleius , Metamorphoses , Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958
Petronius , Satyricon , paperback, 1960
Seneca the Younger
- Breuitate of IUF, PUF, 1959
- Phaedra, PUF, 1965
- De uita beata, PUF, 1969
Apuleius , The Tale of Cupid and Psyche, PUF, 1963
Plautus and Terence , complete works, Paris NFR, 1971
Tacitus , Complete Works, La Pliade , 1990
Cicero before death
- In Pisonem, Belles Lettres, 1967
- Pro Plancio, Belles Lettres, 1976

Translations (from Greek to French)

Longus , the pastoral of Daphnis and Chloe , Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958
Chariton of Aphrodisias , The Loves of cheap and Callirhoe , Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade , 1958
Heliodorus , The Ethiopiques , Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958
Achilles Tatius , The Adventures of Leucippus and Clitophon , Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958
Philostratus , Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958
Lucian , True History, Romans in Greek and Latin, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958
Lucien , The Confession of Cyprian in Greek and Latin Novels, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1958

Honors

Pierre Grimal was a member of:

the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres , from 1978;
Committee of Honour ASSELAF (Association for the preservation and expansion of the French language).