title: Alexander Zaicev on Classical Scholars and Approaches to Scholarship. Reflection upon His Guide-Lines and Apophtegms from 1960ies–70ies
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metadata.value: Gavrilov, Alexander K.
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metadata.value: 2017-07-05T16:01:59Z
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metadata.value: 2017-07-05T16:01:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.value: Gavrilov A. K. Alexander Zaicev on Classical Scholars and Approaches to Scholarship. Reflection upon His Guide-Lines and Apophtegms from 1960ies–70ies. Philologia Classica 2016, 11(2), 308–323.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2016.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6742
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metadata.value: As a pupil and subsequently colleague of prof. Alexander I. Zaicev (1926–2000) the author endeavours
  to cite certain apophthegms on classical scholarship and/or approaches to antiquity formulated or hinted at by
  that outstanding scholar and teacher at the University of St. Petersburg on one occasion or another between
  1960 and 2000. While still academically young, A. I. Zaicev had already had a gruelling experience of a person
  incarcerated in the Kazan psychiatric special institution (read jail) for political confinement in the course of the
  Stalinist repressions from 1947/48. After his liberation in 1954 Zaicev was able to return to Leningrad, finish
  his studies and continue them as a post-graduate. As an assistant at the Classical department of the Philological
  Faculty he made his way both in scholarship (PhD at Philological faculty in 1969 and Doctorship in historical
  studies at the Historical Faculty in 1987) and teaching. His strong opinions were remarkable indeed as part of
  both lived-through experience and cognitive adventure of his much-enduring generation. As Zaicev’s teaching
  resulted meanwhile in a sort of school following a few of his interests and / or principles it seems not void
  of sense to recollect and to think about his agrapha dogmata — not by chance one of his aphorisms said that
  “among other things, pupils inherit their teacher’s mistakes”. Of course some distortions are liable to happen
  in the situation when the spoken words were not written down, but the present author aspires to retain the
  ipsissima verba, as well as their smart, apodictic turn, sometimes ornamented with grotesque or touched with a
  stroke of humour. This circumstance was not the only but the major cause for preserving the original language
  here. On the other hand, these sayings turned out to need a commentary — otherwise the original meaning of
  some of them might well be misunderstood now. On the whole they seem to preserve the atmosphere Zaicev’s
  personality created — extremely active both as teacher and scholar, nourished by the reading of Plato and
  Aristotle, formed by the ideas of the (ir)responsibility of modern intellectuals (strong impact of Julien Benda’s
  thought) and deeply influenced by his Catholicism. Both his character and thought were steeled by early imprisonment
  and further political pressure and — last not least — by everyday hard work at this University until
  his last days. His maxims on scholarship and scholars form a unique whole and are well understandable when
  regarded in the context of his tasks, reading and ideas.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scholarship
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: knowledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: teacher
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pupils
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conferences reports
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: seminar
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: experiencepractical
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wisdom l’art de vivre apophthegms
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: aphorisms
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hyperbole irony
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intellectuals truth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Alexander Zaicev on Classical Scholars and Approaches to Scholarship. Reflection upon His Guide-Lines and Apophtegms from 1960ies–70ies
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