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Central and Eastern European Classical Scholarship
WELCOME TO CEECS, a website intended to serve, in
simple and compact form, as a clearing house for information on
Central and East European Classical
Scholarship since the end of World War II. The countries covered
will be the lands of the former Soviet Union (The Russian Federation,
Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Estonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan),
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
Albania, Yugoslavia ( The following are the kinds of items, by country,
that will appear on the website:
*Reviews of monographs, editions and translations
of Classical texts , and journal volumes.
*The leadership and involvement of national
Academies of Sciences in Classical Studies.
*Descriptions of Classics programs at individual
institutions (e.g., universities, teacher training colleges, seminaries,
hopefully even secondary schools). These will, to the extent possible,
include lists of faculty members, with their academic ranks and
addresses and brief statements of their teaching and research specialties.
*More extensive profiles of individual prominent
scholars, current and past (since 1945).
*Information on scholarly associations concerned
with Classical Studies, and on the activities and programs of these
organizations in furthering the study of the Classics. I also hope
to include timely notices of upcoming meetings and reports on recently
conducted congresses, commemorative observances, colloquia, seminars,
and other gatherings.
*Information on libraries, museums and other
institutions holding major resources of Classics-related materials.
*Lists and descriptions of periodicals, serial
publications, commemorative/festschrift volumes, tributes/in memoriams,
bibliographical surveys and similar materials with substantial Classics
content, that have been in existence, at one time or other, since
the end of World War II.
*Lists of major archaeological sites and
field research centers.
The term "Classics," as here used, refers to Ancient
Greek and Roman/Latin Studies. These include languages/literatures/etymologies/linguistics,
history, art and archaeology, philosophy and religion, science,
pedagogy, and auxiliary disciplines such as epigraphy, sphragistics.
numismatics, papyrology, palaeography and textual criticism. Because
Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature also are extensively studied in
Central and East Europe by traditional Classicists, work in these
fields will be discussed to some extent. Near Eastern Studies, as
they bear on the Ancient Greco-Roman world, will likewise receive
substantial treatment. However, given the massive amounts of data
to be dealt with, the focus of necessity must be on Ancient Greece
and Rome, from the Creto-Mycenaean era to the fall of the Western
Roman Empire.
Classicists who already have computers and regularly
visit the Internet know that many Academies of Sciences, educational
and cultural institutions, and serial publications already have
websites. Several of the websites and web pages deal specifically
and in detail with Classical Studies and even have English-language
formats. Though mentioning these Internet locations already in place,
I obviously do not intend, apart from basic reference information
already accepted as being "in the public domain", to repeat or duplicate
their content. For topics not yet sufficiently covered, or appearing
on the Internet in non-English languages, I shall make fuller reports
and give all presentations in English. English, indeed, will be
the language of the website, apart from some addresses, which are
best left in their original tongues. Names of publications not printed
in the Western European languages and alphabets will be both listed
in the original language (transliterated for Cyrillic) and translated
into English.
For the latest scholarship and news from "The other half of
Classical Scholarship" please see www.ceecs.net
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