Biography

Originally a pupil of École normale supérieure

École normale supérieure

An école normale supérieure or ENS is a type of publicly funded higher education in France. A portion of the student body who are French civil servants are called Normaliens....

 (promotion 1956), an aggregate of letters, he was a pupil of École française d'Athènes, a school where the French language is educated to students mainly from France in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. He is a specialist in Greek history, he is a retired professor at Marc-Bloch University in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. He directs the Ktema review.

Works

• Athènes devant la défaite de 404. Histoire d'une crise idéologique, De Boccard, 1976
• La femme dans les sociétés antiques, University of Strasbourg
  University of Strasbourg
  The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is the largest university in France, with about 43,000 students and over 4,000 researchers....
  
  , 1983
• Le système palatial en Orient, en Grèce et à Rome, De Boccard, 1987
• La Grèce au Ve siècle, de Clisthène à Socrate, Seuil, 1995
• La codification des lois dans l'Antiquité, De Boccard, 2000
• Sparte. Histoire politique et sociale jusqu'à la conquête romaine, Seuil, 2003

External links

• In French:
  • http://www.umr7044.cnrs.fr/ANNUAIRE/titulaires/EdmondLevy.html
  • http://www.fnac.com/199331/rcwwwa/La-Grece-au-Veme-siecle-De-Clisthene-a-Socrate-Nouvelle-histoire-de-l-Antiquite