interview of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, now on-line !

Our Festival wishing more and more to become interactive, we ask you to send your suggestions, reactions, propositions (cf. "Contact").

You can also read an article on "Corporate training and the Classics" or visit the Web Site  of Marcel Botton, President of NOMEN, a worldwide Naming Agency,who quotes in a video interview special Festival ... Platon and the Cratyles' dialog ! He will come for the 6th IFLG and our "Job's Corner.

You can listen to Elizabeth Antébi's interview, founder and director of the IFLG (in French) on the radio-on-line CANAL ACADEMIE

A very European and even International Festival

Every year, countries outside France participate, sending groups, authors, films, professors and teachers : In 2009, they came from Hungary (Joseph Karolyi Foundation ) and Portugal (Coimbra University). And now, in 2010, we bring events to Luxemburg.  In some cases, we put the passions of a modern event in a historical context. For example, it is easier to speak of Persia (Iran) from the perspective of Thucydides and Aeschylus. Egypt could be better understood by reading Herodotus. Cicero helps with concepts of the law. All the modern issues: human rights, women’s liberation, technology, advertising, ecology and even citizenship have their roots in classical times as well.

France can be proud to have had a Minister of Education who was able to bring to life and translate (live) the Homer's invocation to the Muse on a Primetime TV Show, on September 11, 2008 !

Thanks to our friends R. Delord and M-O Girard, the Festival is on  : De Tribus Porcellis and ISTA, German group of latin Hip Hop, with Tu Romane, Abiit, Odi et Amo and others (cf. FELG 2009, for Little Red Hook in Latin and Poenulus of Plautus with masks)!

Festum Europaeum Latinum et Graecum quintum tractabit argumentum c.t."Barbari, Alteri, Limes".   Patroni hujus festi sunt duo administri galli, Domina Valérie Pécresse ab Institutione Superiore et Dominus Xavier Darcos ab Institutione Nationali, et patrona perennis festi erit Domina Jacqueline de Romilly, Academiae Gallorum.   Constabit e tribus diebus et duobus vesperibus congressuum et disceptationum minorum.   Allicient quoque cantica linguâ latinâ, excerpta e comoediis antiquis hodiernisque, expositiones de Carthagine, conventûs de Pace Romana, 'Babylonia et Graecia', 'Hierosolyma, Athenae et Roma', itinera humanistarum, concentûs de Pythagoro, afflatûs antiqui super opera Debussy.
Fient apparatûs vestituum antiquorum, cena graeca, et legentur opera latina scripta a Joachim du Bellay, Karl Marx et Arthur Rimbaud.
Mense Marte anni 2005-i aperto, huic evento prodest favor non solum virorum feminarumque politicorum (François Fillon, qui illo tempore Administer ab Institutione Nationali primus eo favit, quem secutus est R. Donnedieu de Vabres, Administer a Cultu Civili);   litteratorum (Jacques Lacarrière, qui eum inauguravit, Karl-Heinz de Rothenburg et Olivier Germain-Thomas, qui quoque adfuerunt, et Vassilis Alexakis;   sed etiam diurnariorum, quorum P.P.D.A., hospes et sidus televisificum, qui consentit edicere titulo magnis litteris scripto Acta Diurna anni 429-i a.Chr.n. Athenis;  necnon sodales Academiae Scientiarum (sicut ei, de quibus tractavit emissio «Rayon Gamma Facteur Epsilon» in Canal Académie [Catena televisifica Academiae];  et scholae, quarum specializatio 'Periegesis et Patrimonium', ubi horno 'Point Métier' [Angulus ad vitae cursum eligendum] ad juniores dicatus inaugurabitur.
In hoc festo aliquantum insolito ordinabitur certamen europaeum ludorum et inventorum pertinentium ad Antiquitatem, ut oblectamentis, musicâ, artibus elegantioribus, colloquiis de aspectibus historicis, et illo Angulo ad vitae cursum eligendum, emolumenta eruditionis conditae in memoria communi et patrimonio universali humanitatum (bene vocatarum) probet.   Hoc patrimonium semper vivet pro eis, qui subsidiis latine in Interret pansis et Graeciae linguae mythisque, annorum plus quam duo millia et multas vicissitudines superantibus, student.   Nam, nisi homo suum proprium cultum civilem et ejus virtutes noscit, quo modo ingenia alienigena explorare et ad ea se accommodare potest?
Ecce tres dies festivi et jucundi. (translated by Brennus Legranus)