Euroclassica Newsletter Number 22, January 2014 ANNUS HORRIBILIS: QUO VADIS, EUROPA? Dear friends of EUROCLASSICA, 2013, just ending, should be considered, no doubt, as a kind of annus horribilis for Classical Studies in Europe. As a matter of fact, I had to write letters and/or to sign petitions on behalf of our federation for at least 10 different countries: Spain, Russia Switzerland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom … If things continue to move this way, I am afraid Classics will disappear from most countries in Europe in a couple of years. Latin still survives quite well in some countries; Greek instead seems to be more and more marginalised at High School nearly everywhere. If we remember the different reports offered by our delegates at the conference in Lisbon, we will guess that Greek is nearly non-existent in Europe. Even Greece thinks of removing it from secondary schools. Europe has turned back to the Dark Age of the destruction and the barbarians. Suppressing Latin and Greek from most schools in Europe means killing off Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Cicero and many other excellent writers. Removing Classics means throwing the main roots of western civilisation on the fire. This awful phenomenon has already happened many times in History: many books were burnt, even if many others were saved and could be copied and reprinted again. Europe is lost; no ideas, no roots to fix and lean on, no outstanding individuals to lead a reaction. If we turn our minds back in time, we could think of the Medici in Firenze; money used to help artists, poets, playwrights; money given to support 1 the classical heritage of Europe. Ubi sunt? Where is this kind of person? Who is ready to support Classics nowadays? Ministers of Education of every country in Europe, give us a chance, give classical subjects a chance! We classicists are not responsible for the European economic crisis. Do not force all boys and girls of Europe to grow up without roots, without permanent humanistic moral values. Everybody in Europe should be proud of being European but not because of sharing the euro but because of having the traces of Greeks and Romans on their mind and spirit. What can we do? Should we retire? Should we give up fighting? -Not at all! Dear friends, I have often repeated it: we are, no doubt, a minority, but we are right. Remember Cassandra, remember Laocoon. Our aims are worth it. Our work is generous and positive. We still keep with us Pandora’s Box. Let us resist, let us fight and we will survive. Remember once again: fortunately or unfortunately even if we are so tired insisting over and over again, still for us, ferendum quidem atque sperandum. José Luis Navarro 2 Contents EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE .................................................... 4 BANK ACCOUNT .................................................................. 5 DIRECTORS OF ACADEMIES .............................................. 5 ECCL – EUROPEAN CERTIFICATES FOR CLASSICS ...... 5 WEBSITE AND WEBMASTERS OF EUROCLASSICA ........ 6 EDITOR OF EUROCLASSICA NEWSLETTER .................... 6 ASSISTANTS ........................................................................ 6 PRESIDENT’S REPORT ....................................................... 7 FINANCIAL REPORT .......................................................... 13 MINUTES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN LISBON, 31ST AUGUST, 2013 .................................................................... 16 REPORT ON THE ACADEMIA HOMERICA 2013 .............. 26 ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIA HOMERICA 2014 ....... 27 REPORT ON ACADEMIA SAGUNTINA SECUNDA ........... 31 ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIA SAGUNTINA III, JUNE 29TH -JULY 6TH 2014 ........................................................... 34 ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 29TH – 31ST, 2014 ......................................................................... 36 WEBSITE – EUROCLASSICA REVIEWS ........................... 40 MEMBERS OF EUROCLASSICA AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ...... 45 MEMBERS ASSOCIATED, COOPERATORS, AND CONTACTS ......................................................................... 49 3 Executive Committee José Luis Manchester 12 E-28022 Madrid Tel. +34 915523318 Navarro A 4° B Spain Fax +34 915522318 President, www.estudiosclasicos.org Treasurer, [email protected] Elena Vasilievskiy RU-199004 Tel. +7 812 3282535 Ermolaeva Island, St.Petersburg Fax +7 812 2351302 Vice- 4 Linia, 5, 25 Russia [email protected] president, EGEX Christine Carrels 15 CH-2034 Peseux Tel. +41 32 7311612 Haller Switzerland [email protected] Secretary, Newsletter, Support to Academia Homerica Nijole Silo 4-11 LT-01203 Tel. +370 6 9931974 Juchneviciene Vilnius [email protected] Conf. 2012 Lithuania Support to Academia Ragusina Francisco Rua Maria P-3060-218 Tel. +351 231423856 Oliveira Amélia Cantanhede Fax +351 962957733 Lobbying Magalhaes [email protected] Carneiro 18 4 Bank Account Please transfer your subscription to: Beneficiary: S.E.E.C., Delegación de Pamplona Address of the Bank: CAN / Caixa, Oficina de Ermitagaña C/ Ermitagaña, 1 E 31008 PAMPLONA (Navarra) / SPAIN Account N° / IBAN : ES 55 2100 5237 6622 0004 0405 SWIFT / BICCODE: CAIXESBBXXX !!! Notice the new IBAN and the new SWIFT BICCODE !!! Directors of Academies Director of Academia Homerica Maria-Eleftheria Giatrakou Tel./Fax +30 210 6423526 4-6, Sot. Charalampi Mobile: +30 6932 368388 GR-11472 Athens [email protected] Director of Academia Latina Eva Schough Tarandi Tel. +46 70 5536886 Hammarby Allé 105 lgh 1203 [email protected] S-12064 Stockholm Director of Academia Ragusina Jadranca Bagarić Tel./Fax +385 20436372 Ivana Meštrovića 3 Mobile +385 915745241 HR-20000 Dubrovnik [email protected] Directors of Academia Saguntina Gemma López [email protected] José Luis Navarro [email protected] Manchester 12 A 4° B Tel./Fax+34 915523318 E-28022 Madrid ECCL – European Certificates for Classics www.eccl-online.eu Director of ECCL – Committee Alfred Reitermayer Tel./Fax +43 316 719866 Steinfeldgasse 26 Mobile +43 664 40 39 570 A-8020 Graz [email protected] 5 Elex / Egex – Trainer www.altphilologenverband.de/lateintrainer Clemens Liedtke Tel. +49 711 41102325 Züricher Str. 49 [email protected] D-70376 Stuttgart Website and Webmasters of Euroclassica www.euroclassica.eu Peter Glatz Tel. +43 699 13455001 Atriumweg, 6A [email protected] A-4060 Leonding www.lateinforum.at www.amici-online.eu Andreas Thiel Tel. +43 664 3585316 Schreinerweg 31 [email protected] A-4224 Wartberg ob der Aist www.lateinforum.at www.amici-online.eu Editor of Euroclassica Newsletter Christine Haller Tel. +41 32 7311612 ch. des Carrels 15 [email protected] CH-2034 Peseux Assistants Assistant Treasurer Ramón Martínez Fernandez [email protected] Plaza Pío Baroja, 2-2° A E-31008 Pamplona Assitant Translator John Bulwer Tel./Fax +442072320212 6, Woodland Crescent [email protected] GB-London SE16 6YN 6 President’s Report PRESIDENT´S REPORT 2012-2013 Dear friends, dear colleagues, I hope you have spent some days having a rest enjoying your well deserved summerholiday. Here you have the report of our work for the period January – June 2013. 1- Associations not paying the annual fee a) Serbia: No answer at all, no reaction at all, not even to accept the provisional status of Associated Member. That means that Serbia is considered to have definitely resigned. Unfortunately at the moment, this association is no longer part of EUROCLASSICA b) Bulgaria: Lydia Domaradzka, the new contact person, undertook to update the payment of 150 Euros by the next General Assembly. She was invited to attend the next General Assembly in Lisbon but at the moment we have no news. The Bulgarian association is thus in a kind of stand-by situation. If we do not have any news either before or at the General Assembly in Portugal, the stand-by situation will cease and the association will be considered to have resigned. c) Hungary: After some efforts from Alfred Reitermayer and Christine Haller there was a reaction from Hungary. As a matter of fact they have made a payment for 2012 and they are invited to attend the General Assembly in Lisbon and will contact the treasurer for further payments. This association seems to be now full members again as payments are updated. d) Poland: Excellent news. As indicated in my winter report Poland updated its payments immediately after the General Assembly 2012. They will pay in the future the former eastern-countries fee. That means Poland is updated as a full member of EUROCLASSICA. e) Greece (cf. my winter report, item 1, e): The story continues as follows: Some months after sending the newsletter 2013, and after contacting in Athens Mr. Paulakos the representative member of ODEG, one of our associated members, I received an e-mail from Georgia Xanthakis, the president of the Greek association. She did not mention at all the new position of Etaireia, now not included in the list of members, but she mentioned instead once again my previous letter where I explained to her that we would be ready for an amnesty provided they pay 300 Euros for 2012. She still insists that they are grateful to us for the amnesty but that they can only manage to pay a reduced rate because of the crisis. As I go to Athens every month I am quite aware that the situation has become awful. But even so, we must be careful. It is bad in Portugal too and also 7 in Spain. I answered her saying that the point would be discussed