PT Journal
AU Vymetalova, K
TI The Cabinet for Greek, Roman and Latin Studies and its International Activities in 1950s and 1960s
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2013
BP 217
EP 245
VL 45
IS 2
DE The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences; the Cabinet for Greek; Roman and Latin Studies; Classical Philology; Ancient history; the International Committee Eirene; the collection Eirene
AB The Cabinet for Greek, Roman and Latin Studies was established in 1952 (officially, it has been running since 1 Jan 1953) as one of the research departments of newly founded ASCR. It has been perceived such as a highly specialized institute, the only one of this sort in the republic, dealing with Ancient history and also Latin studies in the era of the Middle Ages and Humanism and its influence on the Czech culture. As regards complicated international relations in the described period, a research cooperation of the Cabinet has been orientated (with some exceptions) especially on countries and research institutes of the socialist bloc. Their specialists have decided to establish an international committee at a conference held by the Cabinet in April 1957 in Liblice, which would organize and coordinate a research work of scientists from the socialist countries. The committee, lately named after the homonymous collection Eirene, has met during international conferences organized by individual member states at an interval of one or two years. A so-called climax of committee's activities was a great international conference with the participation of western researchers that was given in April 1966 in Brno under the name Antiquitas Graeco-Romana ac tempora nostra. Its responses have influenced a perspective on Ancient period of the general laic public and also leading political authorities in Czechoslovakia for a long time.
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