French historian and archaeologist of Ancient Greece
André Laronde (19 June 1940, in Grenoble – 1 February 2011, in Paris) was a French historian and archaeologist. He was a specialist of Greek settlements in Cyrenaica (now Libya).
Career
Laronde wrote his PhD thesis under the directorship of François Chamoux.[1] After he taught at the University of Grenoble, André Laronde was a professor at the Sorbonne[2] in which he presented in 1976 his thesis for the State doctorate « Recherche sur l'histoire de Cyrène », which studied the history of Cyrenaica under the domination of the Lagides.[3]
He assisted François Chamoux since the creation in 1976 of the French Archaeological Mission in Tripoli, then became director from 1981. He also conducted the excavations in Cyrene and Apollonia, Cyrenaica.[4]
1990: (in Italian)Ricerche archeologiche nei porti della Libia, Apollonia e Leptis Magna.
1994: Nouvelles recherches archéologiques dans le port de Lepcis Magna, CRAI, 138, n° 4, (p. 991–1006)
1996: La civilisation hellénistique.
1996: La Libye à travers les cartes postales, 1900–1940.
1996: Apollonia de Cyrénaïque : archéologie et histoire (in Journal des Savants).
1996: L'exploitation de la chôra cyrénéenne à l'époque classique et hellénistique, CRAI, 140, n° 2, (p. 503–527)
2000: Précis d'histoire ancienne
2000: La Libye.
2001: L'Afrique antique, histoire et monuments (in coll. with Jean-Claude Golvin), Paris.
2001: Un nouveau portrait de Ptolémée III à Apollonia de Cyrénaïque, CRAI, 145, n° 2, (p. 737–782)
References
^André Laronde, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique – Libykai Historiai – de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris, Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1987, p. 11. ISBN 2222037468
^Fiche de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres