Malta Classics Association

After having contributed towards the reinstatement of the teaching of Classics at the University of Malta, when the latter was reinstated in 1987, it is a source of great pleasure, and an honour to address you as the Honorary President of the Malta Classics Association. My aspiration is to see Classics projected into the 21st century by a new generation of classicists. We live in a global world and we have to think globally and positively. We cannot afford to remain merely laudatores temporis acti. We need to bring back to life the immense treasures of the Greek and Roman civilizations and to make them relevant to present day society, thereby helping it become more self-fulfilled. Our contemporary world still needs inspiration and ideas from these civilizations that can be transformed by current technologies and frames of mind. This association is there to help make this happen.

Professor Anthony Bonanno, Honorary President,  6 June 2011.

Our young Association can now boast of a place in the world’s network of communication. We not only learn about other Associations through the Internet, but now can actually let ourselves be known. It is hoped by this website that more and more people, both from Malta and overseas, live closer to our ideals and activities. They will appreciate another sense of belonging, that of the Classical World through Malta. Indeed, this website does not isolate our interests and activities, but leads us on to other networks associated with us through our common heritage with the Greeks and the Romans. We, in particular, with long connections with the Greek and the Roman worlds, boast of archaeological and cultural relics of those distant eras. We continue to live and create ideas inspired originally by those great peoples, who continue to live through our perpetration of their ideals. Indeed, life does not stop, but changes, and the present is sustained by the past, while the future depends on the present. As Executive Present for this second year since the inception of the Malta Classics Association, I augur that this website will prove beneficial to all who enter into its portals.

Professor Horatio Caesar Roger Vella, Executive President, 29 June 2011.

Welcome to the website of the Malta Classics Association. The Malta Classics Association, is a collaborative initiative of both the staff and the students of the University of Malta’s Department of Classics and Archaeology. Malta’s Classical history stretches back to the dawn of antiquity and the islands have a correspondingly long and noble tradition of Classical studies. The Association aims to promote knowledge of Classics in all its branches to the widest audience possible, both academic and general. This includes study of the Latin, Greek and Sanskrit languages and of the Roman, Greek and Indo-European cultures. The inclusion of Sanskrit acknowledges the close linguistic and cultural links between Latin, Greek and Sanskrit and the people who spoke them. The Malta Classics Association is especially keen to promote these languages to Maltese schools, to the general public and to build links with universities and other Associations around the world.

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