Pierre Grimal

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Pierre Grimal (November 21, 1912, in Paris – November 2, 1996, in Paris)^[1] was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Fascinated by the Greek and Roman civilizations, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of the classical world, both among specialists and the general public.