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History of the Léon Robin Centre

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From January 1^st, 1991 until October 2002, the Center was directed by Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, P. Aubenque's successor at the University of Paris-IV (UPRESA 8061 of the CNRS). Having become UMR 8061 of the CNRS on November 1^st, 2002, the Centre was directed until September 2006 by Jonathan Barnes, Professor at the University of Paris-IV. From January 2006 to December 2018, the Léon Robin Centre was also associated with the École Normale Supérieure. It was directed from October 1^st, 2006 to December 31^st, 2009 by Barbara Cassin, senior researcher at the CNRS, assisted by J.-B. Gourinat, Deputy Director. From January 1^st, 2010 to August 31^st, 2012, the Centre was then directed by André Laks, professor at the University of Paris-IV and by J.-B. Gourinat, Deputy Director. Following the retirement of A. Laks, the Center has been headed since September 1^st, 2012 by Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, director, and Marwan Rashed, deputy director.

Former directors of the Léon Robin Centre (reverse chronological order):

• André Laks

• Barbara Cassin
  

• Jonathan Barnes

• Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey
  

• Pierre Aubenque
  

• Pierre-Maxime Schuhl
  

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 April 2024 13:10

The Centre for the Study of Ancient Thought, better known as the Léon Robin Centre, is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 8061) placed under the dual patronage of the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the CNRS. It brings together, for the most part, members of the CNRS and teacher-researchers from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure.

See also the history of the Léon Robin Centre.

The Centre, whose current director is Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (CNRS) and deputy director Marwan Rashed (University of Paris-Sorbonne), aims to encourage and coordinate research on Ancient thought and its history. Members of the Centre, grouped in different research programs (see the article Research themes and programs), question the texts in their philosophical content, while carefully taking into account philological and historiographical problems as well as the political, religious, aesthetic background of these texts. It makes considerable room for the history of their reception and for the issues related to their past and contemporary uses.

   1) Léon Robin conference cycle

   2) Seminar "Antiquity's philosophical legacy"

   3) Seminar "PATHOS : « Passions, actions, reactions: the individual and the community"

The Léon Robin conference cycle and the “Legacy…” and “Pathos” seminars are all recognized as doctoral seminars by Doctoral School V “Concepts and Languages” of the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

   4) Seminar "Presocratics"

   5) Hellenistic and Roman philosophy seminar

   8) Doctoral seminar

   9) Study days and colloquia

Tools and links

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Tools

• Placita

Links

• Greek font converter
  

There are tools for converting Greek fonts. See for example the site devoted to the font converter created by David-Artur Daix. This converter allows you to transform a TrueType font into a Unicode font, and conversely a Unicode font into a TrueType font.

• Ancient Greek keyboard layout (AZERTY keyboard, Windows)
  

Adrien Lecerf has created a keyboard layout for the Windows operating system allowing one to switch easily from Latin alphabet input to Greek alphabet input. All characters useful for Ancient Greek are covered, including combinations of a breathing and an accent, the iota subscript, as well as Archaic characters, the trema and the numerical sign (keraia). The archive containing the layout can be downloaded at the bottom of this page, or at this address.

Attachments:

Grec Ancien polytonique.zip

Welcome

The Centre for the Study of Ancient Thought, better known as the Léon Robin Centre, is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 8061) under the twin patronage of Sorbonne University and the CNRS. It mostly hosts CNRS and teacher-researcher personnel from Sorbonne University as well as the École normale supérieure.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 December 2022 11:26

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• Placita

Cette collection de témoignages a été créée par Gérard Journée durant des séjours postdoctoraux au Centre Léon Robin. Placita vise à rassembler au sein d’une base de données informatique le texte des sources relatives aux philosophes dits présocratiques ou préplatoniciens.

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• Convertisseur de polices grecques

De multiples polices grecques polytoniques existent. Aujourd'hui, l'encodage Unicode permet une utilisation plus aisée : au lieu de se procurer et d'installer des polices TrueType contenant seulement des caractères grecs (Graeca II, Spionic, Odyssea,…), l'encodage Unicode permet de taper en grec par exemple avec la police Times au moyen d'un simple changement de clavier. L'avantage de l'Unicode est également l'échange de fichiers entre différents systèmes d'exploitation (Windows, OS, … ) sans aucun problème.

Il existe des outils permettant de convertir des polices grecques. Voir par exemple le site consacré au convertisseur de police créé par David-Artur Daix. Ce convertisseur permet de transformer une police TrueType en police Unicode et inversement une police Unicode en police TrueType.

• Configuration clavier pour le grec ancien (clavier AZERTY, Windows)
  

Adrien Lecerf a créé une configuration clavier pour système d'exploitation Windows permettant de permuter aisément entre alphabets latin et grec. Tous les caractères utiles à la saisie du grec ancien sont couverts, y compris les combinaisons d'esprit et d'accent, le iota souscrit, ainsi que les caractères archaïques, le tréma et le signe numérique (keraia). L'archive contenant le clavier peut être téléchargée en bas de cette page, ou à cette adresse.

Attachments:

Grec Ancien polytonique.zip