Roland Étienne (archaeologist)


Roland Étienne is a French archaeologist and historian specialising in the history of Greek archaeology, ancient architecture and Hellenistic history.

Career

A graduate of the École normale supérieure, Étienne taught ancient history in the Universities of Nanterre and Montpellier and conducted archaeological research in Greece and Turkey.
He has lived five years in Greece with Françoise Étienne, from 1972 to 1976. Both have participated in excavations during this period. Together they authored La Grèce antique : Archéologie d'une découverte.
Professor of archaeology at Lumière University Lyon 2, he is the author of a dissertation on Tinos published in the collection Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome.
In 1992, Étienne was appointed director of the French School at Athens. Since leaving the capital of Greece, he has been a professor of classical archaeology at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and director of the team Mondes grecs archaïques et classiques, which belongs to the Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité at Nanterre University.

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