Gustave Glotz

Gustave Glotz (17 February 1862, Haguenau, Bas-Rhin – 16 April 1935, Paris) was a French historian of ancient Greece. He was a supporter of the theory that history never follows a simple, logical course.

Glotz studied at the École normale supérieure, and in 1885 received the agrégation d'histoire, a competitive examination in France designed to recruit teachers for secondary school positions. In 1907, he succeeded Paul Guiraud as professor of Greek history at the Sorbonne. In 1920, he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, and was named its president in 1928. His work on the economic history of Greece and the ancient Greek city is particularly noted. ''Le travail dans la Grèce ancienne'' (1920) is well known in the English translation ''Ancient Greece at Work'' (1926), as is his ''Cité Grecque'' (1928) as ''The Greek City and Its Institutions'' (1930).

According to Glotz, the first humans to arrive in Greece were semi-nomadic shepherds from the Balkans. Their society was based on a patriarchal clan, whose members were all descendant from the same ancestor and all worshiped the same deity. Unions between several clans resulted in "fraternités", or armed groups. When faced with important undertakings, these groups would come together into a small number of tribes which were entirely independent in terms of religious, political, and militaristic views but which all recognized a supreme king, their chief.

Glotz also distinguished between two phases of the ancient Greek city: an archaic era (1500-1400 BCE), corresponding to the Minoan age, with the formation in Greece of the first urban centers, and a Doric age, roughly viewed as a Hellenic middle age, characterized by chaos and invasions. Only fortified cities and acropolises, capable of controlling the surrounding regions, survived this period.

Glotz gives his name to the Centre Gustave Glotz, a group of researchers under the auspices of the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, the CNRS, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Provided by Wikipedia
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    La civilisation egeenne / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1923
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    La ciudad griega / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1929
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    La ciudad griega / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1957
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    La civilización egea by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1956
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    La civilización egea / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1926
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    La civilization égéenne / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1923
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    La cité grecque / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1928
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    La civilisation egeenne / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1937
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    La ciudad griega / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1957
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    Histoire grecque : Alexandre et l'hellenisation du monde antique / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1945
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    Histoire Grecque : des origines aux guerres médiques / by Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935

    Published 1948
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    La Republique Romaine de 133 avant J.C. a la mort de César / by Bloch, Gustave, 1848-1923

    Published 1940
    Other Authors: “…Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935…”
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    Histoire Romaine : l'empire romain de l'avénement des severes au concile de nicee / by Besnier, Maurice, 1873-1933

    Published 1937
    Other Authors: “…Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935…”
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    Histoire de l'Orient / by Moret, Alexandre, 1868-1938

    Published 1936
    Other Authors: “…Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935…”
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    Histoire romaine : l'empire chrétien / by Piganiol, André, 1883-1968

    Published 1947
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    L'Asie orientale des origines au XVº siecle / by Grousset, René, 1885-1952

    Published 1941
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    L'essor des états d'occident : France, Angleterre, Peninsule Iberique / by Petit-Dutaillis, Charles Edmond, 1868-1947

    Published 1944
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    L'Europe orientale de 1081 a 1453 / by Diehl, Charles, 1859-1944

    Published 1945
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    Le monde oriental de 395 a 1081 / by Diehl, Charles, 1859-1944

    Published 1944
    Other Authors: “…Glotz, Gustave, 1862-1935…”
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