Jean-Michel Roddaz
Jean-Michel Roddaz is a French academic and historian, a specialist of ancient Rome, particularly of the Republican and Augustan periods.Biography
Roddaz became an agrégé d'histoire in 1972 then a doctor. He was assistant of ancient history at the University of Pau between 1974 and 1979. He has an habilitation to direct research after he was a residing member of the École française de Rome between 1979 and 1981. He was a lecturer and professor at the University of Pau from 1982 to 1988 and then became Professor of Ancient History at the Bordeaux Montaigne University in 1988.
He participated in the work Histoire Romaine, Tome I. Des Origines à Auguste under the direction of François Hinard and in collaboration with Dominique Briquel and Giovanni Brizzi, writing the last two chapters, from Julius Caesar's consulate in the year -59 BC to the suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in -30 BC, leading the way for the Empire to Octavian, the future Augustus.Works
- 1984: Marcus Agrippa, BEFAR, n° 252, Rome, .
- 1991: Édition commentée des livres L-LI de l'Histoire romaine de Dion Cassius, CUF, Paris,
- 1993: Les Racines de l’Aquitaine, Bordeaux,.
- 1994: Édition commentée des livres LXVIII-XLIX de lHistoire romaine de Dion Cassius, CUF, Paris,
- 2000: Histoire Romaine, Tome I. Des Origines à Auguste, Fayard, Paris,.
- 2004: Guide archéologique d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux
- 2014: Hérode, Le roi architecte, Actes Sud, Arles
