Pierre Chuvin (1943–2016)
Author of A Chronicle of the Last Pagans
About the Author
Works by Pierre Chuvin
Associated Works
Brills Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2016) — Contributor — 4 copies
Nonnus of Panopolis in context poetry and cultural milieu in Late Antiquity with a section on Nonnus and the modern… (2014) — Contributor — 4 copies
Pagans and christians in the Roman empire: the breaking of a dialogue: (4.-6. century A. D.): proceedings of the… (2011) — Contributor — 3 copies
Studies In The Dionysiaca Of Nonnus (Supplementary Volume No.17 of the Cambridge Philological Society) (1994) — Composer — 2 copies
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II : Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonnus of Panopolis, 26th - 29th… (2017) — Contributor — 2 copies
La poésie épique grecque : métamorphoses d'un genre littéraire: huit exposés suivis de discussions (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Chuvin, Pierre Marie Michel
- Birthdate
- 1943-07-18
- Date of death
- 2016-12-26
- Burial location
- Cimetière communal, Soumans, Creuse, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Saint-Angel, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Place of death
- 10e arrondissement, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Education
- Faculté de la Sorbonne (Doctorat d'état ∙ Lettres Grecques ∙ Thèse 'Mythologie et géographie dionysiaques : recherches sur l'œuvre de Nonnos de Panopolis' ∙ 19 82)
Institut des langues et civilisations orientales
Agrégation de lettres classiques (1966)
Université de Clermont-Ferrand
Lycée de Montluçon - Occupations
- professor of Greek
- Relationships
- Vian, Francis (Professeur)
Will, Ernest (Professeur)
Güzin, Dino (Professeur, Amie)
Guittard, Charles (Thèsard)
Tate, Georges (Ami)
Meunier-Chuvin, Huguette (Epouse) - Organizations
- Institut français d’études anatoliennes, Istanbul (Directeur, 20 03 l 0 08)
Université Paris X-Nanterre (Professeur, Grec ancien, 19 98 l 20 03)
Institut français d’études de l’Asie centrale, Tachkent, Ouzbékistan (Directeur, 19 93 l 19 98)
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (Professeur, Grec ancien, 19 67 l 19 93)
Cahiers d’Asie centrale, Revue (Fondateur)
L'Histoire, Magazine (Membre du comité de rédaction, 19 84) - Short biography
- Pierre Chuvin, Professor of Greek at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, lives in Paris. (from the cover flap of Chronicle of the Last Pagans)
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A Chronicle of the Last Pagans (Revealing Antiquity) by Pierre Chuvin
Careful studies of the destruction of the Pagan religion of Rome and Greece, such as this one, make it clear that the decline was neither inevitable nor welcomed by the whole of society. The Sunday school vision of a world in which only ignorant peasants believed in the old gods while the philosophers merely pretended to a awaited the new faith is definitely destroyed by works such as this.
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ritaer | 1 other review | Dec 7, 2019 |
ritaer | 1 other review | Dec 7, 2019 | This short book does a marvelous job narrating the slow, inexorable death of classical civilization. Chuvin has full command of the original sources and weaves them into a threnody that is poignant (Justinian's closing the School of Athens and the quixotic departure of the philosophers for Persia), brutal (is there another religion besides Christianity that sends heretics to burn at the stake with such elan?), and occasionally absurd (Anatolias, the governor of Antioch, running away to the local bishop from a ceremony honoring Zeus when the Byzantine police closed in and pretending to be consulting the bishop on a matter of scripture).… (more)
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- Works
- 7
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 150
- Popularity
- #138,700
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 12
- Languages
- 2
