Jean-Marie Lassère

Jean-Marie Lassère (14 May 1932 – 17 June 2011) was a 20th-century French historian of the Roman world. He was professor of Roman history at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III. A specialist in Roman Africa, he was also an epigrapher, author of an important textbook.

Selected works

 * Manuel d’épigraphie romaine, Paris : Picard, Antiquité/Synthèses n°8, 2011, 2 vol., 576 et 608 p., 142 ill. (3rd edition reworked and expanded, 1st edit. in 2005).
 * The chosen title indicates that the book is not only about the Latin inscriptions, but also the Greek inscriptions of the Roman world.


 * Bibliographie analytique de l'Afrique antique, t. XX (1986) à XXIX (1995), E.F.R (in collaboration with Yann Le Bohec)
 * Bibliographie analytique de l'Afrique antique, Index des fascicules I (1962-1963) à XXVII (1993), (in collaboration with Yann Le Bohec), E.F.R., 1998.
 * Vbique Populus : peuplement et mouvements de population dans l'Afrique romaine, de la chute de Carthage à la fin de la dynastie des Sévères (146 aC-235 pC), Paris, 1977.