Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
ANNUAL REPORT • A 2008. ÉV - ÁRPÁD MIKLÓS NAGY: Centenary of the Collection of Classical Antiquities 1908-2008
work, although it happens quietly and mostly out of the public view, is relevant to both". This from the editors of the popular Hungarian Classics magazine Okor ('Antiquity') whose first issue of 2009 (and part of the second as well) was entirely dedicated to the centenary. The program aimed on the one hand to encourage Hungarian research in Classical Archaeology, and to give a sense of the place of ancient art and the Classical tradition in contemporary Hungarian culture. Academic Classics can hardly renounce the need for a productive dialogue with the present, without which its work is either unauthentic or irrelevant. A series of events held between the 18th and the 27th of November, 2008 were thus organized with these goals in mind. The main conference held under the aegis of the scholarly program took place on 2 5-26 November. The most important aim of the organizers w r as to offer models worthy to be followed by the next generation of researchers. Papers focussed on a variety of topics, materials, methods, and approaches, with a stellar cast of senior academics invited from several countries. The diversity of academic Classics, and the versatility required of its practitioners, were reflected also in the now almost archaic feature that papers were read in all four of the traditional languages of international Classics: German, French, Italian, and English. Each paper was in some way connected to an object (or objects) in the Collection, in the hope that they might give a direct stimulus to new work on the Museum's holdings. The papers began with Miklós Szabó (ELTE, Institute of Archaeological Studies) who outlined the recent paradigm shift in Celtic archaeology, commenting on the success of joint research on continental Europe and the Mediterraneum (Les Civilisés et les Barbares). Dyfri Williams (British Museum) demonstrated the relation between Greek and Iberian culture through the brilliant analysis of an opus nobile, the gold fibula of the Braganza Collection (The Gold Celtic Warrior Brooch: Hybridity and Cultural Exchange). Messandro Naso (University of Innsbruck) gave an overview of the Etruscan import trade in Central Europe (Etruscan and Italian Artefacts in Central Europe). János György Szilágyi (Collection of Classical Antiquities) delivered an arthistorical analysis of one of the emblematic pieces of the Collection, the terracotta Niobidastatue, which a few years ago was shown to be a modern "forgery" (Apollo travestito da Niobide). Jan Bouzek (University of Prague) summarised the Bronze Age origins of Geometric art (Geometric Art, Homer, and the Museum of Eine Arts in Budapest). Arthur Muller (University of Lille) offered a survey of his pioneering research on Greek terracottas (De Vatelier au sanctuaire. Les terres cuites grecques : nouvelles approches.) Stefan Ritter (University of Munich) produced an
