Léon Homo (16 December 1872 – 16 August 1957) was a 20th-century French historian, a specialist of Roman history.
[1] His principal thesis based on an analysis of the Augustan History was devoted to emperor Aurelian, and the book he published in 1904 still constitutes a reference.
[2] A member of the École française de Rome from 1897 to 1900, he conducted archaeological excavations in 1900 on the site of Dougga in Tunisia.
[2] From 1928, Léon Homo published a number of popular books for an educated public addressing Roman history as a whole, and the relations between the Empire and Christianity.
[2] In 1926, he vigorously opposed the thesis of Hermann Dessau on the uniqueness of the author of the Augustan History, defending the traditional view of six writers and their historical value.