Pierre Briant

Pierre Briant ( born September 30, 1940 in Angers ) is a French historian.

Briant studied from 1960 to 1965 History at the University of Poitiers. In 1965 the teaching examination for history. He received his doctorate with a dissertation on the ancient Macedonian history during the time of Antigonus I Monophthalmos 1972. From 1974 to 1999 he was Professor of Ancient History at the Université de Toulouse- Le Mirail. Since 1999, Briant has been a professor at the Collège de France in Paris. Him an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago was awarded in 1999.

First Briant came forward with a number of important studies on the Greek history of Hellenism; Based on his research about Alexander the Great, he started but then to increasingly deal with the Persian Achaemenid Empire and the rest of the Middle East. Briant is known worldwide next Amelie Kuhrt, Christopher Tuplin and Joseph Wiesehöfer as one of the leading experts in the ancient Persian Empire and its relations with the Greeks. His work Histoire de l'Empire Perse ( in seen by Engl. Translation From Cyrus to Alexander) is currently the most important international standard work on Achaemenid history.

The supervised by Briant site Achemenet among other academic papers are made available and published research news.

Writings (selection )

  • Antigone le Borgne. Les Debuts de sa Carrière et les Problèmes de l' Assemblée Macédonienne. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1973 ( = dissertation)
  • Alexandre le Grand. Que sais - je? Vol 622 Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1974. 7th Edition 2011
  • Rois et tribute Paysans. Études sur les Formations Tributaires du Moyen -Orient ancien. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1982. ISBN 2-251-60269-0
  • Etat et pasteurs au Moyen -Orient ancien. Ed. de la Maison des sciences de l' homme, Paris 1982. ISBN 2-901725-29-5
  • L' Asie centrale et les royaumes proche du - orientaux premier millénaire, c. VIIIe - IVe siècles avant notre ère. Eds. Search sur les Civilisations, Paris 1984. ISBN 2-86538-092-0
  • De la Grèce à l' Orient, Alexandre le Grand. Gallimard, Paris 1987. ISBN 2-07-053041-8 German: Alexander, conqueror of the world. Maier, Ravensburg 1990. ISBN 3-473-51011-4
  • English: From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2002, translated by Peter T. Daniels. meeting
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