Maurice Sartre
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Maurice Sartre (born 3 October 1944) is a French historian, an Emeritus professor of ancient history at the François Rabelais University,[1] a specialist in ancient Greek and Eastern Roman history, especially the Hellenized Middle East, from Alexander to Islamic conquests.
Maurice Sartre has written extensively on the history of the Middle East and the Levantine Sea in Ancient history. He also published several volumes of Greek and Latin inscriptions from Syria and Jordania. Currently[when?] associate researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), and starting from 1997 he was for many years the editor of Syria, the prestigious journal of archaeology, art and history published by this institution.
Honours and awards
Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
- Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Awards
- 1986 : Prize Ambatiélos of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- 2002 : Prize Augustin-Thierry
- 2005 : Historia award
- 2007 : Prize Thiers of the Académie Française
- 2021 : Plottel Prize for Classical Studies of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- 2023 : Premio Cherasco Storia (Italy)
