Simone Follet

Simone Follet (23 January 1935 – 16 February 2021) was a French epigrapher and philologist, specialising in Roman Greece, especially Athens.

Life Follet attended lycée at Mâcon and at Versailles. In 1955, she enrolled in the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres, studying literature. After her graduation in 1958, Follet worked at the University of Clermont-Ferrand until 1961, when she returned to the École normale supérieure to study Ancient Greek philology and literature.

Research Follet's research focussed on the epigraphy of Roman Imperial Athens. Her 1976 book Athènes au IIe et au IIIe siècle. Études chronologiques et prosopographiques (Athens in the 2nd and 3rd centuries: Chronological and Prosopographic Studies), developed from her doctoral thesis, remains the standard work on the chronology of Imperial-period Athens. Follet produced numerous articles and book chapters on individual inscriptions or groups of inscriptions, often in collaboration with Dina Peppas Delmousou of the Epigraphical Museum. and collaborating with Bernadette Peuch on a standard edition of his Lives of the Sophists, which will be published posthumously. She also contributed to work on a standard edition of Callistratus's Descriptions and provided entries for the Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques.