Academia Classica
Summer School in Classics for Russian Schoolchildren
Librarius Novissima Scholae Magistri Declaratio Euroclassica Scribe nobis
See also: Photos from the School by Natalia Samohvalova

The Summer School in Classics (Academia Classica) was organized by the Societas Russica Magistrorum Linguarum Classicarum. The School was held for the first time on the 1st -9th August 2009 in the school buildings of a small village, Rozhdestvo (vicus Nativitatis), which is situated halfway between Saint-Petersburg and Moscow.

The main idea of the School is to promote Latin and Ancient Greek and to support the Classical education in Russia. This School was organized with the help of the Russian Foundation for Support of Education and Science.

34 pupils, 13-17 years old, from large and small Russian cities and towns, took part in the School. They were either winners of the Annual National Competition in Latin or successful in studying Latin and Ancient Greek. The participants had to attend 24 lectures and could choose between 29 seminarsin different fields of Classics, such as Ancient history, Ancient science, theatre, literature, cartography, vase painting, everyday life, all given by lecturers from the universities of Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. Extracurricular activities included staging a Latin play, cooking a Roman feast, making clay tablets and writing Linear B, and playing Ancient games.

Programme

1.08.09

Opening speech by Michael Povalyaev, President of the Russian Foundation for Support of Education and Science.

2.08.09

Acroases:

1. Denis Keyer (SPb). Language and Thinking: is it true that the Ancient Greeks considered the future to be behind and the past in front?

2. Nina Almazova (SPb). Introduction to Greek Vase Painting.

3. Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Introduction to Textual Criticism: Manuscripts and Scribes. (Part 1).

Colloquia:

1.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Ancient Greek for Beginners (Part 1).

2.Vladimir Faier (aka Fire) (Moscow). Latin Poetry in Russian Translations.

3.Denis Keyer (SPb). Petronius, Satyricon.

4.Nina Almazova (SPb). Myth as a Subject of Greek Vase Painting.

5.Sofia Andreeva (SPb). Ancient Sources on the NorthBlack SeaCoast.

3.08.09

Acroases:

1.Nina Almazova (SPb). Ancient Music.

2.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Ancient Greek Theatre.

3.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Introduction to Textual Criticism: Manuscripts and Scribes. (Part 2).

Colloquia:

1.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Ancient Greek for Beginners (Part 2).

2.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Latin Poetry in Russian Translations (Part 2).

3.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Seneca. Epistulae (Epist. Mor. 57).

4.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Computers and Antiquity.

5.Elena Ermolaeva and Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Art of Rhetoric (Part 1).

4.08.09

Acroases:

1.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Etruscan Studies (Part 1).

2.Eugenia Litvin (Moscow). Ancient Medicine.

3.Sofia Andreeva (SPb). Epigraphy (Part 1).

Colloquia:

1.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Ancient Greek for Beginners (Part 3).

2.Maria Philinenko (Moscow). Dura Lex: discussion about human rights.

3.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Reconstructions of Roman Children Games (Nux, 71-86).

4.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Ancient Aegean Writing (Part 1).

5.Sofia Andreeva (SPb). Problems of Translation of Latin Inscriptions (Part 1).

5.08.09

Acroases:

1.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Etruscan Studies (Part 2).

2.Ekatherina Novozhilova (SPb). Latin in Modern Languages (Part 1).

3.Sofia Andreeva (SPb). Epigraphy (Part 2).

Colloquia:

1.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Ancient Greek for Beginners (Part 4).

2.Maria Philinenko (Moscow). New Testament, Matth. 5.

3.Ekatherina Novozhilova (SPb). Horatius. Sat. II, 1 (Part 1).

4.Sofia Andreeva (SPb). Problems of Translation of Latin Inscriptions (Part 2).

5.Elena Ermolaeva and Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Art of Rhetoric(Part 2).

6.08.09

Acroases:

1.LeodinZhmud (SPb). Origin of Greek Science and Philosophy (Part 1).

2.Leodin Zhmud (SPb). Origin of Greek Science and Philosophy (Part 2).

3.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Etruscan Studies (Part 3).

Colloquia:

1.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Sigismund Herberstein. Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii. Basiliae, 1571 (Part 1).

2.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb).Ovidius. Amor., II, 6 (part 1).

3.Ekatherina Novozhilova (SPb). Horatius. Sat. II, 1 (Part 2).

4.Vladimir Faier (Moscow). Ancient Aegean Writing (Part 2).

5.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Viva Latinitas.

7.08.09

Acroases:

1.Peter Shuvalov (SPb). Late Antiquity.

2.Alexander Podosinov (Moscow). Ancient Cartography.

3.Ekatherina Novozhilova (SPb). Latin in Modern Languages (Part 2).

Colloquia:

1.Elena Ermolaeva (SPb). Sigismund Herberstein. Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii. Basiliae, 1571 (Part 2).

2.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb).Ovidius. Amor., II, 6 (part 2).

8.08.09

Acroases:

1.Vsevolod Zelchenko (SPb). Reconstruction of Latin Pronunciation.

2.Peter Shuvalov (SPb). Barbarians on the Boarders of Ancient Civilization.

3.Alexander Podosinov (Moscow). Artermidors Papyrus: original or fake?

Latin theatre: Gesta Romanorum (Latin medieval stories).

Hunters (Parody drama after Little Red Riding hood by Charles Perrault).

9.08.09Departure.

Certamina:

1.Historical competition;

2.Literature competition;

3.Textual criticism competition;

4.Declamation competition;

5.Caput: Latin derivates in Russian;

6.Quiz on Ancient history and culture.

7.Workshop: making Mycenaean clay tablets, writing and deciphering the texts written in Linear B.

Varia:

Roman feast.

Ludi: Itinerarum, Taberna, Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.

Greek, Brasilian and Irish dances.

Russian, English, and Latin songs.



Diploma

Hoc diplomate testamur dominum (-am)

Academiae Clasicae primae socium (-am) factum (-am) esse,

omnibus acroasibus necnon colloquiis summo cum studio affuisse

et Graecorum Romanorumque sapientiam puro animo imbibisse.

Societatis praesidium: E. Ermolaeva, V. Zelchenko, A. Podosinov

Societatis moderatrix: S. Andreeva

Academiae Classicae rectrix: N. Samohvalova

Datum in vico Nativitatis, Russia a.d. VI Sext. AD MMIX




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