Catherine Grandjean

Catherine Grandjean is a specialist of the ancient Greek world, acknowledged by her peers and admired by her students. This collection of articles in English, French, German and Italian, brings together their tributes to her as teacher, scholar and friend. The articles deal with the themes that were the common thread running through her academic research: ancient economics, through the treatises attributed to Aristotle; numismatics, through studies of Hellenistic coins and forays into the Roman world and the Western Middle Ages; and the origins of federal states, particularly in central Greece. The contributors also discuss the reception of Antiquity and the representation of female power (Cleopatra, etc.) on stage and screen (Italian peplums). Readers will find extensive bibliographies on the subjects covered in each contribution. An introduction by three of Catherine Grandjean’s students—Pierre-Olivier Hochard, Gerbert-Sylvestre Bouyssou and Franck Wojan—highlights both the importance of her work in the development of French studies of ancient coinage and her integration into an international network of researchers.