Originally a pupil of an
École normale supérieure (promotion 1956), an aggregate of letters, he was also a pupil of
École française d'Athènes, a school in
Athens,
Greece where the French language is taught to students who are mainly from France. He is a specialist in Greek history and is a retired professor at Marc-Bloch University in
Strasbourg,
France. He edits the Ktèma review.
Works
Athènes devant la défaite de 404. Histoire d'une crise idéologique, De Boccard, 1976