Pierre Briant - Wikipedia Pierre Briant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Pierre Briant Born (1940-09-30) 30 September 1940 (age 80) Angers, Maine-et-Loire Nationality French Alma mater University of Poitiers Known for From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire Scientific career Fields Iranian Studies Institutions Collège de France Pierre Briant (born 30 September 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France (1999 onwards), Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of the website achemenet.com.[1] He studied History at the University of Poitiers (1960–1965), and reached his doctorat d'État in 1972. His works deal mainly with the Achaemenid Empire, and related matters as Alexander the Great or the Hellenistic Era. In the words of Matthew Stolper, Briant "has shown a generation of scholars once isolated from each other that they are members of a common intellectual project of great consequence."[2] Contents 1 Works 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Works[edit] Antigone le Borgne (Les Débuts de sa Carrière et les Problèmes de l'Assemblée Macédonienne) (1973) - doctoral thesis. Alexandre le Grand (1974, 2005) Rois, Tributs et Paysans, Études sur les Formations Tributaires du Moyen-Orient Ancien (1982) Etat et Pasteurs au Moyen-Orient Ancien' in Production Pastorale et Société (1982) L'Asie Centrale et les Royaumes Proche-orientaux du Premier Millénaire (c. VIIIe-IVe s. av. n. è.) (1984) "Pouvoir central et polycentrisme culturel dans l'Empire achéménide (Quelques réflexions et suggestions)", in Achaemenid History I: Sources,structures and synthesis (ed. Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg), (1987) "Institutions perses et histoire comparatiste dans l'historiographie grecque", in Achaemenid History II: The Greek sources (eds. H. Sancisi-Weerdenbur & Amélie Kuhrt) (1987) De la Grèce à l'Orient : Alexandre le Grand, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 27), série Histoire. Paris: Gallimard (1987; new edition in 2005, under the title Alexandre le Grand : De la Grèce à l'Inde[3]) Alexander the Great: The Heroic Ideal, 'New Horizons' series, London: Thames & Hudson (1996) Alexander the Great: Man of Action, Man of Spirit, "Abrams Discoveries" series, New York: Harry N. Abrams (1996) "Ethno-classe dominante et populations soumises dans l'Empire achéménide: le cas de l'Égypte", in Achaemenid History III: Method and Theory (eds. A. Kuhrt & H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg) (1988) Darius : Les Perses et l'Empire, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 159), série Histoire. Paris: Gallimard (1992) Dans les Pas des Dix-Mille (ed) (1995) Histoire de l'Empire Perse. De Cyrus à Alexandre (1996) - in English, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (2002). Darius dans l'Ombre d'Alexandre (2003) See also[edit] Cyrus the Great References[edit] ^ Achemenet.com ^ Uchicago.edu Archived 2006-09-19 at the Wayback Machine ^ "Alexandre le Grand : De la Grèce à l'Inde, collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 27)". gallimard.fr (in French). Éditions Gallimard. 2005. Retrieved 10 June 2020. Briant's page at the Collège de France Iranheritage.org Honorary Degree ar[clarification needed] the Chicago University External links[edit] Achemenet Achaemenid museum P. Briant: Class system in Median and Achaemenid periods, in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Authority control BNE: XX865974 BNF: cb11893994x (data) GND: 112009263 ISNI: 0000 0001 2282 0008 LCCN: n81114022 NDL: 00463758 NKC: jo20181012385 NLA: 35021776 NLK: KAC2018O2601 NTA: 068685408 PLWABN: 9810687226005606 SUDOC: 026752433 Trove: 795916 VIAF: 76312764 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n81114022 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pierre_Briant&oldid=970587715" Categories: People from Angers 1940 births Collège de France faculty Living people 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians Corresponding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French Iranologists Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French male non-fiction writers Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links CS1 French-language sources (fr) Articles with hCards Articles containing French-language text Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2015 Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages تۆرکجه Deutsch Español فارسی Français Latina Русский Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 1 August 2020, at 06:16 (UTC). 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