Paul Demont is professor emeritus of Greek language and literature at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), where he is also director of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds doctoral school.
His publications include La Cité grecque archaïque et classique et l’idéal de tranquillité [The Archaic and Classical Greek City and the Ideal of Tranquility] (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, reprinted in 2009) and, together with Monique Trédé, a translation and commentary on Plato's Protagoras, accompanied by a collection of articles on Protagoras (Le Livre de Poche). His research focuses on archaic and classical Greek literature, the history of ideas in ancient Greece, ancient medicine, and the reception of antiquity.