Founding member of the International Centre for Platonic and
Aristotelians of Athens and for eighteen years advisor of the Institute
international philosophy, Lucien Jerphagnon was one of the finest
connoisseurs of Greek and Roman thought, and one of its best
smugglers.
He who had edited the works of Saint Augustine in La Pléiade
was also the author of a remarkable History of ancient Rome.
Recently he had also published a very serious and very tasty
anthology of La Sottise (Twenty-eight centuries that we speak about it). He was himself
a man of luminous intelligence at opposite ends of the serious mind.
Historian of philosophy, it was our own history that this wonderful
teacher told us, transmitting us in remarkable pedagogue
his gay knowledge. He was a deep and clear thinker, who will have
worked to preserve the depth and joy of the tradition
humanist.