In the first half of the 1960s there were several groups putting forward proposals to establish a wider-based, academic organisation to promote Classics and Ancient World Studies. There had been in existence for many years state Classical Associations, based on the model of, and affiliated to, the U.K. Classical Association, but these were, and still are, comprised of a different range of members – academics, schoolteachers, and interested persons from the general public – and, being located primarily in the state capital cities, they had a local orientation. What the new groups were looking for was a more ‘professional’ organisation which would be attractive to academics, and in particular they focussed on the desire to set up a national academic journal to promote their disciplines of Classics and Ancient World Studies. To some extent university Classics staff had been offered support from a body called AULLA (‘Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association’), which had been formed in 1957 and which, as its name implied, covered both Australia and New Zealand. AULLA met in Congress every 18 months to two years in either Australia or New Zealand. The Congresses regularly had a Classics Section, with a local convenor who arranged for the giving of papers by university staff offering them. AULLA also published a journal, AUMLA, which arose out of the Australasian Universities Modern Languages Association (the forerunner of AULLA); the name implies its orientation, and the journal was not seen as an entirely congenial location for articles on Greek and Roman topics, though such did appear from time to time. Ancient Historians had been partially catered for by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS). It was a more powerful organisation – it did have the word ‘Science’ in it, after all – because it had the ear of government. It met in Congress every year or so at a host university; occasionally there would be a section for Archaeology (mainly Australian) or for Ancient World Studies, but it would depend on someone from the host university taking on the role of organising such a section. There was no publication to which staff in universities could submit articles, though abstracts of papers presented at ANZAAS Congresses could be collectively published afterwards. One of the groups which met in the 1960s to create a new organisation was convened on the initiative of the enthusiastic but eccentric Godfrey Tanner, from Classics in the (then) University College of Newcastle. Under his guidance an organisation called ‘The N.S.W and A.C.T. Joint Committee’

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简介：Antichthon 的简史以纪念其成立 50 周年

在 1960 年代上半叶，有几个团体提议建立一个基础更广泛的学术组织，以促进经典和古代世界研究。基于英国古典协会的模式并隶属于英国古典协会，国家古典协会已经存在多年，但这些协会过去和现在仍然由不同范围的成员组成——学者、学校教师和感兴趣的人来自公众——而且，他们主要位于州首府城市，具有地方导向。新团体正在寻找一个对学术界有吸引力的更“专业”的组织，特别是他们希望建立一个国家学术期刊，以促进他们的经典和古代世界研究学科。在某种程度上，大学经典教职员工得到了一个名为 AULLA（“澳大利亚大学语言和文学协会”）的机构的支持，该机构成立于 1957 年，顾名思义，覆盖了澳大利亚和新西兰。AULLA 每 18 个月到两年在澳大利亚或新西兰召开一次国会会议。大会定期设有经典部分，由当地召集人安排大学工作人员提供论文。AULLA 还出版了 AUMLA 期刊，该期刊源于澳大利亚大学现代语言协会（AULLA 的前身）；这个名字暗示了它的定位，虽然该杂志不时出现在希腊和罗马主题的文章中，但它并不被视为一个完全合适的地方。澳大利亚和新西兰科学促进会 (ANZAAS) 部分地满足了古代历史学家的需求。这是一个更强大的组织——毕竟它里面确实有“科学”这个词——因为它有政府的耳朵。它每年都会在东道主大学召开国会会议；偶尔会有考古学（主要是澳大利亚）或古代世界研究的部分，但这取决于主办大学的某人担任组织这样一个部分的角色。虽然在 ANZAAS 大会上发表的论文摘要可以在之后集体出版，但没有大学工作人员可以向其提交文章的出版物。1960 年代成立一个新组织的团体之一是由来自（当时）纽卡斯尔大学学院的古典文学部的热情但古怪的戈弗雷·坦纳 (Godfrey Tanner) 倡议召集的。在他的指导下，一个名为“新南威尔士州和首都领地联合委员会”的组织