Romaric Bardet holds an agrégation in history and a doctorate in Greek archaeology from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He is a temporary teaching and research associate at Prof. Denis Knoepfler's Chair of Epigraphy and History of Greek Cities.
His doctoral thesis focuses on water supply and management in the Greek cities of Crete, from their birth - in the Geometric period, ca. 8thc. BC - to the conquest of the island by the Romans at the end of the Hellenistic period (67 BC).
This thesis attempts to define the contours of Cretan hydraulic civilization in the 1st millennium BC, and thus to make a more general contribution to the study of the island's poleis: the role of city institutions in water management, factors of efficiency in Cretan hydraulics, and the influence of resources on human geography in particular.
The multi-disciplinary approach takes into account a wide range of data: natural supply constraints and amenities, hydraulic remains, literary and epigraphic sources.
This research is accompanied by fieldwork, as part of the research missions carried out by the École française d'Athènes on the archaeological sites of Dréros and Lato (Eastern Crete).
