ABSTRACT
Louis Gernet’s name has been given to the Center for the Comparative Research of Ancient Societies, now located in L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Gernet’s name also lives on through the work of Vernant, Détienne, Vidal-Naquet, and Loraux. Vernant and Detienne attended his lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and have passed on his influence to another generation now being influenced by the Gernet Center’s sponsorship of scholarly studies on ancient societies. This second generation is associated with a movement in the United States called “New Historicism.” François Hartog, a specialist in Herodotus, has had his work translated into English in a series of books published on “new historicism” and edited by Stephen Greenblatt. Greenblatt, an American scholar of the English Renaissance, gave the term currency in a program for “new historicism” articulated in a special issue of the journal Genre in 1982. 1
