Gaëlle followed the research interest: Women in the ancient world
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Department Member, History
CNRS-Université Lyon 2, Institut de recherche sur l'architecture antique
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Archéologies d'Orient et d'Occident et Science des Textes
Teaching Fellow in Ancient History
About
My main area of interest is the history and archaeology of the Hellenic Mediterranean and Orient, with an emphasis on the study of public architecture and Hellenistic administration.
My doctoral dissertation (Université Lumière-Lyon, 12/2005; supervisors M.-Ch. Hellmann & E.H. Williams) examined the organization and architecture of the archives and libraries in the Hellenic world, from the late Archaic to the Flavian period. This study, which combined the study of written testimonia and the material remains related to these institutions, addresses several fields of the Classical scholarship such as cultural history, ancient literacy, administration, public architecture and town-planning.
My current work focuses more particularly on the administration of the Seleucid kingdom, the organisation and functions of the public centres (the agora) in the Hellenized East, public architecture in the Hellenic world and the conservation of writings in the Graeco-Roman Aegean.
A secondary area of interest concerns the interaction between Mediterranean and Mesopotamian traditions in the Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman East, with an emphasis on the religious and public landscape of Dura-Europos (Salhiye, Syria).
I have been working in several excavations in Greece (especially Messene since 2000) and Syria, where I am assistant-director of the Syro-French expedition in Dura-Europos, an exceptionally well-preserved city at the crossroad of Mediterranean and Mesopotamian influences. In this site, I have completed the study of a small Palmyrene sanctuary and am currently in charge of the research program on the agora. I have also recently begun a new study of the Greek inscriptions and parchments of the site, focussing on the onomastics and magistratures in the city.
