Marcel Detienne

Q: When did Marcel Detienne die?

Marcel Detienne died on March 21, 2019.

Q: How old was Marcel Detienne when they died?

Marcel Detienne was 83 years old at the time of death.

Q: When was Marcel Detienne born?

Marcel Detienne was born on October 11, 1935.

Q: What was Marcel Detienne's occupation?

Marcel Detienne was an university teacher.

Marcel Detienne (French: [dətjɛn]; October 11, 1935, Liège, Belgium – March 21, 2019, Nemours, France) was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L. Gildersleeve chair in Classics.

Along with Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Detienne has sought to apply an anthropological approach, informed by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, to classical and archaic Greece.

Biography

Detienne received his Doctorat en sciences religieuses at the École des Hautes Études in 1960, and his Doctorat en philosophie et lettres from the University of Liège in 1965.

Detienne was at one time a directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études, where he taught until 1998. He was also a founder of the Centre de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes in Paris. Detienne began teaching in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University in 1992.