The École normale supérieure –PSL is a grande école in Paris,France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). Due to its special historical role,large endowment,and influence within French society,the ENS is generally considered the most prestigious of the grandes écoles. Its pupils are generally referred to as normaliens,while its alumni are generally referred to as archicubes.
Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and historian,a philologist and student of epigraphy,who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity,notably Mithraism.
The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa is a public university institution in Pisa and Florence,Tuscany,Italy,currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students.
Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers was a French Dominican theologian and,later in life,a Traditionalist Catholic bishop who supported sedevacantism and sedeprivationism and was excommunicated by the Holy See.
The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is a special-statute,highly selective public research university located in Pisa,Italy.
John Victor Tolan is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin-speaking civilizations of the Middle Ages.
The Italian Institute of Human Sciences,often shortened to SUM,is an Italian public university dedicated to post-graduate formation and high level research in human and social sciences. It promotes Doctoral,Post-Doctoral and Master programmes in collaboration with other Italian and European universities.
Aldo Andreotti was an Italian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry,on the theory of functions of several complex variables and on partial differential operators. Notably he proved the Andreotti–Frankel theorem,the Andreotti–Grauert theorem,the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem and introduced,jointly with François Norguet,the Andreotti–Norguet integral representation for functions of several complex variables.
Hebdomada Aenigmatum is the first magazine of crosswords in Latin.
Catherine Virlouvet is a French historian,a professor of economic and social history of ancient Rome. In 2011,she was appointed director of the École française de Rome,the first woman ever to hold that post.
Dominique Briquel is a French scholar,a specialist of archaeology and etruscology. Briquel studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1964 to 1969 and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1971 to 1974. Since 1974 he taught Latin at the École Normale Supérieure. From 1984 to 1996 he was a professor of Latin at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Since 1992,he has been Director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études,in the department of historical and philological sciences and since 1996,professor of Latin at the Universitéde Paris-Sorbonne.
Luca Desiata is an Italian manager,Latinist and art curator. He was the CEO of SOGIN between 2016 and 2019. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine of Latin crosswords Hebdomada Aenigmatum and of the magazine of crosswords in Ancient Greek Onomata Kechiasmena. He is the curator of the Corporate Art Awards.
Jocelyne Dakhlia is a French historian and anthropologist. A director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales,her work is concerned principally with the political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Marcel Dubois was a French geographer. He was a co-founder of the Annales de Géographie,a journal of academic geography.
Charles Bonnet is a Swiss archeologist,specialist of Ancient Nubia.
Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Bròzolo was an Italian theoretical physicist
Juliette Bessis was born in 1925 in Gabès,Tunisia,and died 2017 in Paris,France. She was a contemporary Tunisian scholar and historian specializing in the Maghreb region of northern Africa.
Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet is a French historian and research director. She is a doctor in history,research director at the CNRS,at the Orient and Mediterranean laboratory and a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. In 2016,she was awarded the Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize for Woman Scientist of the Year.
Émilia Masson was a linguist and epigrapher whose areas of research included the undeciphered Cypro-Minoan writing system from ancient Cyprus,and the ancient Anatolian language Hittite.
Siculian is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in central and eastern Sicily by the Sicels. It is attested in less than thirty inscriptions from the late 6th century to 4th century BCE,and in around twenty-five glosses from ancient writers.
