The International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (FIEC), or ''Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques (FIEC)'' (in French, which is its other official language) is an international association of Classical Studies associations all over the world. It encompasses national and international associations promoting the development of

Classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

, Classical archaeology,

papyrology Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

, paleography, epigraphy,

numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...

, among other subjects. It was founded in

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in 1948 at the

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

, where its associated journal, '' L'Année philologique'', was also based. It currently has members in 46 countries, encompassing more than 60 national and regional associations and 14 international organizations of classical studies.

History

An international network of classicists was being tentatively assembled just before the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

. In 1948, Juliette Ernst and Jules Marouzeau (from ''L'Année philologique'') fond support in UNESCO, in Paris, which offered funding and logistical support from organizations such as the International Academic Union or the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (ICPHS). The founding assembly was held on 28 and 29 September 1948 at

. The first president was classical philologist

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Carsten Høeg. Largely French at first, the FIEC became also more Anglophone from the 1980s. Its seat is established in the city where the secretary resides. The Secretary General in 2019 is Professor Sabine R. Huebner, from the

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. The latest FIEC International Congress was held in

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in 2019, with the support of the three British associations:

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the Ancient, Byzantine and Modern periods. The first Pr ...

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interest ...

, and The Classical Association. The next meeting will be held in 2022 in

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,Official Website of the 16th FIEC International Congress 2022, Mexico City
/ref> the congress after that in 2025 in

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(Poland).

Founding members

* Société d'Études Latines de Bruxelles (Belgium) * American Philological Association (USA) * Association Guillaume-Budé (France) * Association pour l’encouragement des études grecques en France (France) * Société des études latines (France) * Société internationale de bibliographie classique (France) *

Classical Association The Classical Association is a British learned society in the field of classics, aimed at developing classical study and promoting its importance in education. Constitution The association was founded on 19 December 1903, and its objects are def ...

(UK) * The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (UK) * The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (UK) * Classical Association of Scotland (Scotland) *

Nederlands Klassiek Verbond Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

(The Netherlands) * Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne (Poland) * Dansk Selskab for Oldtids-og Middelalderforskning (Danemark) * Filologisk-Historiske Samfund (Danemark) * Svenska Klassikerförbundet (Sweden)

List of members

* Classical Association of South Africa (South Africa) *Deutsche Altphilologenverband (Germany) *Mommsen-Gesellschaft (Germany) *Sodalitas (Austria) *Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Klassischer Philologen (Austria) *Société d'études latines de Bruxelles (Belgium) *Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (Brazil) *Parnassos Literary Society (Greece) *Philologos (Greece) *Scientific Society of Athens (Greece) *Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica (Italy) *Centro di studi ciceroniani (Italy) *International Plutarch Society - Sezione italiana (Italy) *Società italiana per lo studio dell’ antichità classica (Italy) *Schweizerische Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft (Switzerland) *Groupe romand des études grecques et latines (Switzerland). *Turkish Institute of Archaeology (Turkey)

Additional members

* Association internationale d'épigraphie grecque et latine (AIEGL) * Association internationale d'études patristiques / International Association of Patristic Studies (AIEP) * Association internationale de papyrologues (AIP) * Association internationale des études byzantines / International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB) * Association Internationale des Etudes Néo-Latines / International Association For Neo-Latin Studies (Societas Internationalis Studiis Neolatinis Provehendis) * Association pour l'étude de l'Antiquité tardive (APAT) * Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) * Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi ''Marcello Gigante'' (CISPE) * Comité international permanent des études mycéniennes (CIPEM) * Fondation Hardt pour l’Étude de l’Antiquité Classique * International Association "Geography And Historiography In Antiquity" (GAHIA) * International Plato Society (IPS) * Société internationale de bibliographie classique (SIBC) * Société internationale pour l'histoire des droits de l'Antiquité (SIHDA) * ''

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae The ''Thesaurus Linguae Latinae'' (abbreviated as ''ThLL'' or ''TLL'') is a monumental dictionary of Latin founded on historical principles. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (died ...

'' (TLL)

Presidents

* 1948–1951: Carsten Høeg * 1951–1954:

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...

* 1954–1959: Bernard Abraham van Groningen * 1959–1964: Pietro Romanelli * 1964–1969: Dag Norberg * 1969–1974: Marcel Durry * 1974–1979: Dionisie M. Pippidi * 1979–1980: * 1982–1984: William H. Willis * 1984–1989: Emilio Gabba * 1989–1994: Jean Irigoin * 1994–1997: John Boardman * 1997–2004:

Carl Joachim Classen Carl Joachim Classen (15 August 1928 - 29 September 2013) was a German classical scholar. Biography Classen studied classics at Göttingen and Hamburg. His academic teachers include Ernst Zinn and Bruno Snell in Hamburg and Kurt Latte in Götti ...

* 2004–2009: Heinrich von Staden * 2009–2014:

Averil Cameron Dame Averil Millicent Cameron ( Sutton; born 8 February 1940), often cited as A. M. Cameron, is a British historian. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and the Warden of Keble College, Oxford ...

* 2014-2019: * 2019-2022: Gunhild Vidén

General secretaries

* 1948-1953 Charles Dugas * 1953-1974 Juliette Ernst * 1974-2004 François Paschoud * 2004-2019 Paul Schubert * 2019–present Sabine R. Huebner

FIEC-Congresses

* 1950: Paris (France) * 1954: Copenhagen (Denmark) * 1959: London (Great Britain) * 1964: Philadelphia (USA) * 1969: Bonn (Germany) * 1974: Madrid (Spain) * 1979: Budapest (Hungary) * 1984: Dublin (Ireland) * 1989: Pisa (Italy) * 1994: Quebec (Canada) * 1999: Kavalla (Greece) * 2004: Ouro Preto (Brasil) * 2009: Berlin (Germany) * 2014: Bordeaux (France) * 2019: London (Great Britain) * 2022: Mexico-City (Mexico) * 2025: Wrocław (Poland)

References

External links

Official Website of the FIEC – International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies
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