2007
29 December
Appearance of "Hyperboreus" 12.1-2.
20 November
Mr. Claus Michaletz, Mrs. Erika Neubert, Mrs. Brigitte Weiß and Dr. Volker Schwarz (SECCO Pontanova-Stiftung, Berlin) visited Bibliotheca Classica and presented it with a selection of books on Classics. Speeches of welcome were delivered by Mr. Claus Michaletz and Dr. Alexander Verlinsky. More
18–20 November
“Colloquium Balticum VII: Classical Heritage and Modernity” took place in Tartu (Estonia). The conference of the Baltic Network of Classical Scholars, organized by the Department of Classical Philology of the University of Tartu and Morgenstern Society, is celebrating the 375th anniversary of the University of Tartu. Speakers came from Lithuania, Latvia, Sweeden, Germany, Finland, Russia, and Estonia.
Nina Almazova read a paper on “Auloedia, auloedos: the definition”; the title of Sofia Egorova’s paper was “The Epodes of Horace and a Roman poetry book”. Programme ...
14 November
Conference commemorating the 110th anniversary of Prof. Dr. Aristid I. Dovatur (1897–1982) and 75th anniversary of rebirth of the Department of Classics at St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Philology and Fine Arts of St. Petersburg State University). Speakers: Prof. Dr. Jury Otkupschikov, Prof. Dr. Eduard Frolov, Prof. Dr. Jelena Rabinivich, Prof. Dr. Valery Durov, Dr. Alexander Vasiljev. With official programme completed, a number of former pupils and colleagues of A. Dovatur shared their vivid reminiscences of the teacher, including Prof. Dr. Alexander Gavrilov, Assoc. Prof. Natalya Botvinnik, Prof. Dr. Tatiana Rozhdestvenskaja, etc.
23 October
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Antonio Corso (Athens) "Relations between masters and pupils in the workshops of Classical Greek sculptors".
19-22 September
Annual EUROCLASSICA Conference "CLASSICA PETROPOLITANA" (St. Petersburg State University, The State Hermitage Museum, Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum). More ...
17 September
Appearance of a book by A. Gavrilov "St. Petersburg in Heinrich Schliemann's Fate" (St. Petersburg: KOLO. 2006. 478 P.). The book has a German summary.
13 September
Appearance of "Abaris" № 8
1 August
Lecture by Prof. Victor Bers (Yale University) "Amateur Speech in the Athenian Law Courts".
30 June
Grand meeting “Bibliotheca classica Petropolitana: 14 Year Results and Future Prospects”. The meeting was attended by members of the association Bibliotheca classica Petropolitana (Antichnyj Kabinet) and the distinguished guests from Europe, the members of the comitee of “Amici Bibliotheca Classicae”, the world-embracing society for the support of the Bibliotheca classica (Dr. André Hurst, Université de Genève; Prof. Dr. Bernd Manuwald, Universität Köln; Prof. Dr. Bernd Seidensticker, Freie Universität Berlin), and Dr. hab. Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus, the academic secretary of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the institution, which helped considerably played the decisive role in founding of the BiCl and its further activities. The members of various St. Petersburg institutions participated in the meeting and took part in discussions which followed it (St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences; Department of Biblical Studies, St. Petersburg State University; State Hermitage; Gymnasium classicum; Library of St. Petersburg State University).
In compliance with the Association law, the board of administration of the Bibliotheca classica elected a new director, Dr Alexander Verlinsky. Prof. Dr. Alexander Gavrilov will in future retain the prominent position in the Bibliotheca Classica as its founding director and the permanent member of the administration. He addressed a speech welcome to the audience and gave a talk on the history of the Bibliotheca classica. Prof. Dr. Bernd Seidensticker gave a report on “Amici Bibliothecae Classicae”. Dr. hab. Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus concentrated public’s attention on cooperation of Wissenschatskolleg zu Berlin and Bibliotheca classica. Dr. Alexander Verlinsky read a paper on the activities of the Bibliotheca classica and its future projects, which ended in laudatio Alexander Gavrilov. More ...
25 May
Visit of Professors Lucia Calboli Montefusco and Gualtiero Calboli (Bologna).
21 May
Lecture at the "Classics Club": "Forms se and sese in Commentarii de bello Gallico" (Anna Saveljeva, 8 grade). Alexandra Mikhajlova (8 grade) reads her translations from «Bellum grammaticale» by Andrea Guarna (1511г .)
21 May
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Georg Wöhrle (Trier) „Söhne (und auch Töchter) ohne Väter. Vaterlosigkeit in den homerischen Epen“
13 May
Arsenij Vetushko-Kalevich, pupil of Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum (11 grade), won the first prize at XI Certamen della Tuscia (Viterbo) - International Ancient Greek Competition
4 May
Lecture at the "Classics Club": "Greek curses on lead tablets" (Jekaterina Zheltova, 9 grade).
23 April
Lecture at the “Sirens Club”, Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum (“Homer from the Philological and Historical Point of View: "Iliad" and history” – Dr. D. Panchenko)
19 April
Lecture by Dr. Roberto Polito (Cambridge) "Ethnography and Politics: Caesar, the Germani and Rome"
2 April
Lecture by Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge) «The ambiguous worlds of Platonism».
23 March
Appearance of Hyperboreus 11.2
15 March
Conference commemoration the 60th anniversary of Nikolaj Nikolajev, head of the Department of manuscripts and rare books (Library of St. Petersburg State University)
14-15 March
XXXVI International philological conference (St. Petersburg State University). Lectures by V. Zelchenko (Epigraph to the Pushkin's poem «To slanderers of Russia»), D. Keyer "On Greek epi dexia"
5 March
Lecture by Prof. Brian Sparkes (Southampton) “The Ransom of Hector Illustrated: Priam Meets Achilleus”
2 March
Grand opening of the Byzantine Centre and of its library attached to the Greek Institute (patronage of the Philological faculty of St. Petersburg State University)
22 February
Lecture at the “Sirens Club”, Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum (“Homer from the Philological and Historical Point of View” – Dr. E. Ermolaeva)