Pierre Grimal Pierre Grimal was a French historian, classicist and Latinist . Fascinated by the Greek and Roman civilizations , he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of the classical world , both among specialists and the general public .Biography Admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1933, and received third at the "agrégation de lettres" in 1935, he was member of the École française de Rome then taught Latin at a Rennes lycée. Then he was active as a professor of Roman civilization at the faculties of Caen and Bordeaux, and finally at the Sorbonne for thirty years. He published studies on the Roman civilization, of which many volumes to the "Que sais-je?" series, and translations of Latin classical authors. On his retirement, he also published biographies and fictionalized histories, more intended for the general public. At the end of his life, he campaigned for the safeguarding of literary teaching.Works All published in Paris: Dictionnaire de la mythologie grecque et romaine , published by PUF , 1951, fifth edition in 1976 Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade , 1958 Le siècle des Scipions, Rome et l’Hellénisme au temps des guerres puniques , Aubier, second edition in 1975 La littérature latine , PUF Que sais-je? n° 376, 1965 La mythologie grecque , PUF Que sais-je? n° 582, ninth edition in 1978 L’art des jardins , PUF Que sais-je? n° 618, third edition 1974 Les villes romaines , PUF Que sais-je? n° 657, first edition 1954, seventh edition in 1990 Le siècle d’Auguste , PUF Que sais-je? n° 676, 1965 Dans les pas des césars , Hachette, 1955 Horace , Editions du Seuil , 1955 La civilisation romaine , Arthaud, fourth edition in 1970 Italie retrouvée , PUF, 1979 Nous partons pour Rome , PUF, third edition 1977 L’amour à Rome , Belles Lettres , 1979 Mythologies , Larousse, 1964 Histoire mondiale de la femme , Nouvelle Librairie de France , 1965 Etude de chronologie cicéronienne , Les Belles Lettres , 1977 Essai sur l’art poétique d’Horace , Paris SEDES, 1968 Le guide de l’étudiant latiniste , PUF, 1971 La guerre civile de Petrone , dans ses rapports avec la Pharsale , Les Belles Lettres, 1977 Le Lyrisme à Rome , PUF, 1978 Sénèque, ou la conscience de l’Empire , Les Belles Lettres, 1978 Le théâtre antique , PUF Que sais-je number 1732, 1978 Le Quercy de Pierre Grimal , Arthaud, 1978 Sénèque , PUF Que sais-je? number 1950, 1981 Jérôme Carcopino , un historien au service de l’humanisme , Les Belles Lettres, 1981 Rome, les siècles et les jours , Arthaud, 1982 Virgile ou la seconde naissance de Rome , Arthaud, 1985 , École française de Rome, 1986 Cicéron , Fayard, 1986 Les erreurs de la liberté , Les Belles Lettres, 1989 Tacite , Fayard, 1990 Marc Aurèle Les mémoires d’Agrippine , editions De Fallois, 1992 Le procès de Néron , editions De FalloisTranslations Latin to French Frontinus , De aquae ductu Urbis Romae , Belles Lettres, 1944 Petronius , Satyricon , in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Apuleius , Les Métamorphoses , in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Longus , La pastorale de Daphnis et Chloé , in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Petronius, Satyricon , Livre de poche, 1960 Seneca the Younger * De brevitate vitae , PUF, 1959 * Phaedra , PUF, 1965 * De vita beata , PUF, 1969 Apuleius, Amor and Psyche , PUF, 1963 Plautus and Terence , complete works , Paris NFR, 1971 Tacitus , complete works, La Pléiade , 1990 Cicero * In Pisonem , Belles Lettres, 1967 * Pro Plancio , Belles Lettres, 1976 The memoirs of Pomponius Atticus , Belles Lettres, 1976Greek to French Chariton , Les aventures de Chéréas et de Callirhoé, in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Heliodorus of Emesa , Les Ethiopiques , in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Achilles Tatius , Le roman de Leucippé et Clitophon, in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Philostratos , Vie d'Apollonios de Tyane, in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Lucian , Histoire véritable , in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958 Lucian, La Confession de Cyprien , in Romans grecs et latins , Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1958Honours Pierre Grimal was a member of:
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