Paul Veyne

Paul Veyne, born June 13, 1930 in Aix-en-Provence, a French archaeologist and historian, an expert in the history of ancient Rome. He was a student at École Normale Supérieure and a member of the École française de Rome (1955 - 1957) and currently holds the position of honorary professor at the Collège de France. Some of his most famous works are Comment on écrit l'histoire: essai d'epistemologia (1970), Le pain et le cirque (1976), L'inventaire des differences (1976), Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes? (1983), L'Elegie érotique romaine (1983), La société romaine (1991), Sexe et pouvoir à Rome (2005), L'empire Greco-Roman (2005), Foucault, sa pensée, sa personne (2008), Palmyre. L'irremplaçable trésor (2015).