Il giorno 8 ago 2025, alle ore 20:37, Antonia Ruppel <rhododaktylos@gmail.com> ha scritto:

Dear Raffaele,

It is good to hear from someone associated with Vivarium Novum! Do you know how they are going to make use of the links between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin for their curricula? I have lots of experience with this and would be delighted to help.

I do not think that the main aim of this initiative is to create “links" between Sanskrit and Latin-Greek, but to promote the study of the classical Western languages in Indian Universities, where it has been almost non-existent until now. Then, Vivarium Novum plans to add the teaching of Sanskrit culture to that of Latin and Greek in the framework of the Campus Mondiale dell’Umanesimo. Your collaboration would be, of course, very welcome.

But I wonder: when they go to India, will they continue the slightly unusual policies from their Italian site (young men only accepted if, among other things, they have their hair short, young women either not accepted at all, or later accepted but only if, unlike their male counterparts, they do not stay on the grounds of the Accademia)?

Let me add some comments to your remarks. About the management of annual scholarship holders, Vivarium Novum is bound to cling to the regulation of the Convitti Nazionali Italiani, which provides for the accommodation of long-term scholarship holders of different sexes in separate buildings. Of course, this old-fashioned custom does not apply to the participants in intensive courses or in the many international conferences they organise. However, in order to overcome this unpleasant limitation they are near to acquisition of the XVIII century Villa Lucidi nearby, meant for accommodation of female long-term scholarship holders. Finally, you said: “when they go to India…”. They will not go to India: Latin and Greek will be taught by young Indian scholars trained in the Academy's courses. I am in touch with one of them, perhaps the most brilliant student of recent years: he is from Nepal and has indeed a very imposing name: Anandavardhan…

Raffaele

All my best,
Antonia

On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 19:04, Raffaele Torella <raffaele.torella@uniroma1.it> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I should like to draw your attention to the activity of Vivarium Novum Academy (https://www.vivariumnovum.net/en), which is probably known to some of you as the venue of the wonderful Raniero Gnoli day, held in October 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-HaEXsVoA&t=524s). In October 2024 it was also the seat of the Biannual Meeting of the Italian Association for Sanskrit Studies.

Vivarium Novum, Campus Mondiale dell’Umanesimo, housed in the Borrominian Villa Falconieri near Frascati, promotes the study of Latin (including Medieval and Renaissance Latin) and Greek (Classical and Homeric) also as spoken languages. The President, Prof. Luigi Miraglia, with whom I am in close contact, has recently visited Nepal (for the WSC) and India in order to create Latin and Greek curricula in the Sanskrit Universities (to be extended in the near future to the major Indian Universities).

Warmest wishes,
Raffaele

Il giorno 8 ago 2025, alle ore 17:41, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> ha scritto:

Dear all,

Seth Powell already sent out the Yogic Studies course offerings for the autumn, but I wanted to take the liberty to point out a YS course that may be of particular interest to members of this list, Greek-S 101: Ancient Greek for Sanskritists, which I will teach starting September 15.

I made a short video describing the course, which you can watch here; but in a nutshell: if you already know Sanskrit, you have an excellent basis for getting to grips with Ancient Greek. There is an enormous amount of overlap in the forms and their usage, and the main difference between the two languages (the rather more intricate rules of syntax that Greek has) is exactly what we will be discussing in detail.

Greek-S 101 covers all Ancient Greek grammar with the help of lots of custom-made resources; in 102, we will read Plato's Apology, and in 103 either Sophocles' Antigone or Euripides' Medea, both with readers I am making for each course. You can find all information on this sequence of courses at https://www.yogicstudies.com/greek-s-101.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

All my best,
Antonia

PS: Our course 'Latin for Sanskritists' just ended two weeks ago; the third term was 12 weeks of reading Seneca's Letters and contrasting Hellenistic philosophies with some of the philosophical approaches that we find in ancient India.

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