Sixth International Conference on Classical Studies in Plovdiv. Problems of Ancient Literature

The Committee for Classical Studies Eirene (Mir), established by the academies of the socialist countries at the invitation of the Bulgarian Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, organized this spring its Sixth International Conference in Plovdiv. The conference brought together many guests from abroad, specialists in various fields of the science of classical antiquity. They were fascinated by the fact that they were meeting in a city that, despite the strong beating pulse of socialist industry, has preserved as millennial witnesses of its past traces of Thracian, Greek and Roman culture, and in its Archaeological Museum preserves the unique and world-famous gold treasure from Panagyurishte. All foreigners undoubtedly took back to their homeland the most enthusiastic impressions of both the new life here and the old fragrance that wafted from antiquity. The organizing committee of the conference, headed by its chairman Acad. Vl. Georgiev had the excellent idea of ​​naming the meeting rooms of the individual sections in the hotel after the four old names of Plovdiv: Pulpudeva, Philippopolis, Eumolpiada and Trimontium. The meetings began on 24 and continued until 29 April 1962. Here Bulgarian linguists, historians, writers and archaeologists met with their distinguished colleagues from the USSR, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the GDR and Yugoslavia. Two Western scholars were also present as guests - Pierre Chantren, President of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Literature and Ronald Syme (England), Secretary General of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanities at UNESCO.