Kalendae [antikvár]

KALENDAESTUDIA SOLI. EMN1A IN MEMÓRIÁM JOIIANNIS SARKADY Hungarian Pons Studies 16. 20118György NémethCONFERENCE IN COMMEMORATION OF JÁNOS SARKADYOn 27 November 2007, the Institute of History and the Department of Classical History in the University of Debrecen (DE), and the Epi-graphical Workgroup of the Debrecen Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science organized a conference in commemoration of János Sarkady (1927-2006), late professor of the Faculty of Humanities on his 80"1 anniversary. The opening lecture was held by Prof. János Barta (DE), who praised his career as a scholar and as a teacher. In 1947 János Sarkady started his university studies in Debrecen and in 1951 he graduated at ELTE University in Budapest, where he first became an assistant lecturer and then a senior lecturer. In 1957 he was expelled from ELTE, since he had been member of the Revolutionary Committee of the university. Between 1967 and 1987 he was teaching at DE (then Kossuth Lajos University) as Head of the Department of Classical History and, for a short while, as temporary Director of the Institute of History. However, he was still politically unforgiven: the secret police had him shadowed until 1988.The second lecturer, György Németh (DE-ELTE) played a section of a lengthy conversation tape-recorded with János Sarkady (János Sarkady on 1956). Ilona Sz. Jónás (ELTE) emphasized in her lecture that in spite of popular belief the acquaintance of Greek language did not disappear in Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. Classical Greek authors can be traced in the catalogues of major monastic libraries (Classical Greek authors in early medieval school teaching). Zsigmond Ritoók (ELTE), member of the Academy, university classmate, and friend of János Sarkady, examined various interpretations of a story that is widely known from the poem of János Arany, Vojtina ars poeticája (Ars poetica of Vojtina). Parmenon wanted to shame an artist who imitated the squeal of pigs, and having hidden a pig under his cloak he pulled its tail and pretended the imitation of its squealing. The audience, however, preferred the artist's imitation to genuine pig