Yann Berthelet
Visiting Researcher
Yann Berthelet studied History, Ancient Studies and Classical Philology at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), the University of Paris IV Sorbonne and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2012, he received a PhD from the latter institution on the topic of Roman public divination, with a focus on augury and auspices. This work was published in 2015 under the title Gouverner avec les dieux. Autorité, auspices et pouvoir sous la République romaine et sous Auguste, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. He was a resident at the Fondation Thiers-Centre de Recherches Humanistes in Paris from 2013 to 2015, working as a postdoctoral fellow. He has held the Chair of Greco-Roman Antiquity History at the University of Liège since 2015 and has been an associate professor since 2018. He is a visiting researcher at the University of Luxembourg (18 August 2025–18 February 2026), working within the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences as part of a collaboration with Professor Andrea Binsfeld. He specialises in ancient Roman religion and Roman political institutions, particularly during the Republic and the Early Empire.
Research projects:
Dieux de Rome et du monde romain
Roman God’s Networks
Publications:
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MSH 2.218
yann.berthelet@ext.uni.lu yann.berthelet@uliege.be
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