Marcel Detienne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marcel Detienne

Belgian historian

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1935

Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 21-Mar-2019

Profession: historian, university teacher, anthropologist, philosopher, classical philologist, mythographer

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Marcel Detienne (October 11, 1935 in Liège, Belgium – March 21, 2019 in Nemours, France) was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece.
He was a Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L.
Gildersleeve chair in Classics. Along with Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Detienne has sought to apply an anthropological approach, informed by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, to classical and archaic Greece.