Speech by Dr. Dimitrios Th. Vasiliadis on “The Sanskrit Language and its Greek Scholars” (April 15, 2024)

Friends,

The Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture and Development invites you to an event organized in collaboration with the Friends of the Gennadeius Library Association, by Dr. Dimitrios Th. Vassiliadis on the topic “The Sanskrit Language and its Greek Scholars.”

The lecture will take place on Monday, April 15, at 7 pm, in the Amphitheater Cotsen Hall (9 Anapiron Polemou str. Athens)

For anyone who wishes to watch the lecture online, the link is 

*The lecture will be delivered in Greek

Sanskrit (saṁskṛta), literally ‘refined’, is one of the oldest and most important languages of the Indo-European family.

Among its first European scholars was Dimitrios Galanos the Athenian (1760-1833), while his footsteps were followed by a series of Greek academics and writers, such as Georgios Tserepis, Iordanis Karolidis, Lorenzos Mavilis, Konstantinos Theotokis, and others.

Learning Sanskrit is an indispensable resource for linguists and scholars of Indian philosophy and religion, as well as for those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the refined spirit of the Sanskrit culture in general.