# Classical Philology and Ancient Greek and Roman Tradition in the World Culture

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*In English and Russian*

Level of education Master

Type of instruction Full-time

Duration 2 years

Programme description

The master’s programme "Classical Philology and Ancient Greek and Roman Tradition in the World Culture" is designed to study a set of academic disciplines covering the whole variety of texts in Ancient Greek and Latin. They are aimed at studying: these languages and literature; the monuments themselves that preserve these texts; as well as those aspects of culture and history of the Ancient world that require philological analysis of the sources. The programme encompasses: linguistics (including historical grammar, lexicology, and dialectology); the history of literature (including metrics, stylistics, and textual criticism); the reception of classical heritage in Western European and Russian literature; and the history of ideas in the world of classical antiquity. The programme is inextricably linked with other humanities disciplines insofar as they draw on textual analysis, i.e. political and legal history, and the history of religion, science, philosophy, and art.

Main courses

- Ancient Greek and Latin
- Italian Language in Historical Aspect
- German
- History of Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
- Historical Grammar of Ancient Greek and Latin Languages
- Textology
- History of Ancient Art
- Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology
- Ancient Philosophy and Religion
- Special Courses on the History of Various Branches of Ancient Science and the Reception of Ancient Heritage in World Literature

Our advantages

This academic programme is unrivalled in any other Russian higher education institution.

- The programme is designed to train unique specialists who have skills in the translation and interpretation of texts written in Ancient Greek and Latin.
- The students acquire the fundamentals of Ancient Greek and Latin historical grammar.
- The students learn the history of Ancient Greek and Roman literature: the emergence, formation and development of the main genres; ideological and artistic features of the literatures. They gain a concept of traditional and modern views on the course of the literary process.
- The students study ancient science, culture and art, and the reception of antiquity in world culture

Teaching staff

- M. M. Pozdnev — Professor, Doctor of Philological Sciences, author of translations of classical authors, articles on classical philology, the textbook *Palaestra Latina* and the monograph *The Psychology of Art: Aristotle's Doctrine*
- A. K. Gavrilov — Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of over 200 publications including the monographs *St Petersburg in the Fate of Heinrich Schliemann* and *Studies on Ancient Greek Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea Coast*, the collected articles *On Philologists and Philology*, supervising editor of the three-volume *Dictionary of St Petersburg Classicists of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries*, translator of Petronius and Marcus Aurelius, specialist in the history of Russian classical studies and the reception of antiquity in Russian culture
- E. V. Zheltova — Associate Professor, Doctor of Philological Sciences, author of works on Latin morphosyntax and the biographical genre in ancient and Byzantine literature, the monograph *The Ancient Tradition on the Persian Magi*; translator and commentator of *The Life of Andrew the Fool*, Editor-in-Chief of the journal *Philologia Classica*
- V. V. Zelchenko — Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, author of translations of classical authors, articles on Hellenistic and Roman poetry, the history of daily life in antiquity, the reception of antiquity in Russian literature, and the textbook *Ancient Greek: Exercises and Texts*
- E. L. Ermolaeva — Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Russia's representative to the pan-European association of schoolteachers of ancient languages 'Euroclassica', coordinator of the Russian association of schoolteachers of ancient languages 'Societas Russica Magistrorum Linguarum Classicarum'. Author of articles on the history of ancient Greek literature and the annotated edition *Homer. The Iliad. Book XVIII 'The Shield of Achilles'*
- N. A. Almazova — Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, author of articles on practical aspects of the history of ancient music
- O. V. Budaragina — Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, author of articles on the history of Roman literature and the history of classical studies, author of the monograph *Latin Inscriptions in St Petersburg* and the reader *Latin Language* (co-authored with T. B. Putilova)
- M. N. Kazanskaya — Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences and PhD (Sorbonne), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of articles on various aspects of the study of Greek and Roman literature

Main areas of research

- Various aspects of research in Greek and Roman literature
- Classical languages in the light of history and typology
- Ancient epigraphy, metric and textual criticism
- Reception of ancient heritage in world literature
- History of ancient Greek and Roman science and philosophy

Career opportunities

##### Key Professions

- Teacher of Ancient Languages ​​in higher and secondary educational institutions
- Teacher of Latin at medical schools
- Literary editor
- Fiction Translator
- Journalist
- Research Fellow at Academic Institutes and Research Libraries

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