Roland Étienne (archaeologist)

Roland Étienne (born 18 April 1944) is a French archaeologist and historian specialising in the history of Greek archaeology, ancient architecture and Hellenistic history.

A graduate of the École normale supérieure (1964–1969), Étienne taught ancient history in the Universities of Nanterre and Montpellier and conducted archaeological research in Greece (Cyclades) and Turkey.

[3] Together they authored La Grèce antique : Archéologie d'une découverte (collection "Découvertes Gallimard", 1990; English edition: The Search for Ancient Greece).

Professor of archaeology at Lumière University Lyon 2, he is the author of a dissertation on Tinos published in the collection Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome (1990).

Since leaving the capital of Greece, he has been a professor of classical archaeology at Pantheon-Sorbonne University,[5] and director of the team Mondes grecs archaïques et classiques, which belongs to the Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité at Nanterre University.