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I took my first degrees in classics and ancient history at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and the Paris-Sorbonne University. As a post-graduate student, I conducted researches under the direction of Pr Jehan Desanges. In 1998, I defended a Ph.D. dealing with the confusion between India and Ethiopia in Greco-Roman Antiquity (from Homer to the 6th century AD) : L'Ethiopie et l'Inde. Interférences et confusions aux extrémités du monde antique.
Current position : lecturer ("maître
de conférences") in ancient History at the Université
d'Artois (Arras - France)
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Current teaching responsabilities
History of the ancient Greek world
History of the Hellenistic world
History of the ancient Near East
Latin & Greek (ancient)
Member of the French
research center (C.N.R.S.) team Hisoma
(located at the Maison
de l'Orient -
Lyon - France)
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I have just joined the international research team supervised by Pr Didier Marcotte, who manages a considerable research project about the Indian ocean from the Antiquity to the 16th century AD. Link to the MeDian programm website : http://median.hypotheses.org/
I am in touch with Michel Pons, who aims to survey the African Red Sea coast - as far as Eritrea and Djibouti - in order to discover scattered remains of the Ptolemaic settlements in this area (redseasurvey@yahoo.com)
Université
d’Artois - U.f.r. " Histoire et géographie"
9
rue du Temple
62000
Arras
France
pierre.schneider@univ-artois.fr
The Greco-Roman world and the Erythraean sea, from the VIth century AD to the VIth century BC. In the the Greco-Roman experience, the Erythraean sea covers all the areas adjacent on the Indian ocean, Red sea and Persian gulf (today : Ethiopia, Erythrea, Yemen, India, Sri Lanka ...)
I focuse on three research-fields in particular :
the Greco-Roman activities in the Erythraean area (e.g., exploration, sailing, cultural and political contacts, trade with India, South Arabie, East Africa)
the Greco-Roman knowledge about the Erythraean world (mainly in topics such as ethnography, geography, history, zoology, botanical…)
the Erythraean countries and people as seen by the ancient Mediterraneans
My investigations are basically supported by written evidence, mainly literary sources, since epigraphical and papyrological documents are scarce. Fortunately, in my opinion, much is left to be learned from literary written evidence. Obviously, the archaeological discoveries are as much as possible taken into consideration.
In order to get the most from the ancient written sources, I have realized a extensive data-base which I started off ten years ago. This Microsoft Access data-base contains so far over 6000 records, covering more than 95% of the ancient (from Homer to the early Byzantine literature) literary sources dealing with East Africa, South Arabia, India, Erythraean sea, Taprobane etc.. A key-word system allows easy queries and checking.
On-line free-reading available (see the url link below)
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« Hê megalê thalassa : un autre nom de l’Erythrée ? », Revue des études grecques, 114, juillet-décembre 2001, p. 626-636
« Les éléphants des Lagides : de l’appropriation du mythe indien à l’amertume des réalités », dans J.-P. Bois (éd.), Dialogue militaire entre Anciens et Modernes, Rennes, 2004, p. 73-80
« L’élimination des faibles et des vieillards : regard grec sur les sociétés des confins de l’oecoumène », dans M. Molin (éd.), Les régulations sociales dans l’Antiquité, Rennes, 2006, p. 43-53
« La connaissance des mangroves tropicales dans l’Antiquité », Topoi 14, 2006, p. 207-244
« Les ressources de la mer Érythrée vues par les Gréco-Romains », dans J. Napoli (éd.), Ressources et activités maritimes des peuples de l’Antiquité (Les cahiers du Littoral, 2, n°6), Boulogne-sur-mer, 2008, p. 385-394
« Res Indicae : quelques remarques au sujet du papyrus P.C.Z. 59532 et du fragment Sat. 66V²d’Ennius », J. M. Candau Morón, F. J. González Ponce, A. Chávez Reino (eds.), Libyae lustrare extrema. Estudios en honor del Profesor Jehan Desanges, Séville, 2008, p. 253-270
« De l’Hydaspe à Raphia : rois, éléphants et propagande d’Alexandre le Grand à Ptolémée IV », Chronique d’Égypte, 83, 2009
11 entries in P. Brun, A. Sartre-Fauriat, M. Sartre (edd), Dictionnaire du monde grec antique, Paris, 2009
Off-prints (pdf file) available on request
Review of Albaladejo Vivero (M.), La India en la literatura griega. Un estudio etnográfico, Alcalá, 2005 in Revue des études anciennes, 110.1, 2008, p. 270-272
The Eastern part of the world in the medieval mappaemundi British Libray add. 10049, 64 & 64 v (to be a chapter in a complete study of the so called saint Jerom’s maps (project conducted by St. Lebreton et P. Gautier-Dalché)
Review of Pline l’Ancien, Histoire naturelle, Livre VI, 4e partie (l’Asie africaine sauf l’Égypte, les dimensions et les climats du monde habité) - Texte établi, traduit et commenté par J. Desanges – Paris, 2008 (collection des Universités de France), Revue des études latines, 2010
Review of Pline l’Ancien, Histoire naturelle, Livre VI, 4e partie (l’Asie africaine sauf l’Égypte, les dimensions et les climats du monde habité) - Texte établi, traduit et commenté par J. Desanges – Paris, 2008 (collection des Universités de France), Revue des études anciennes, 2010
The African coast of the Red sea and the Indian ocean : a comprehensive study of the Greco-Roman toponymy (monography)
Transplanting the franckincense tree (about the attempts by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kings to transplant gomm-trees)
Nonnosus : a byzantine traveler in Abyssinia and Red Sea
The Erythraean pearl (monography)
Translation and full commentary (taking in account the latest studies) of Megasthenes’ Indika
