Together with François Chapouthiere he directed joint Czech-French excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Samothrace. In 1923 he went to an expedition looking for inscriptions in the southern Thrace, that became Greek only shortly before that after conclusion of the Greek-Turkish War. In the following year 1922 Salač participated in the French excavations on Thasos and Samothrace, prepared several articles for Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique and became co-editor of the Leiden edition of the Greek inscriptions Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. For the French School he collected a catalogue of Thassian stamps on transport amphorae, which was never published before, and which formed the core of the first monography focused on these stamps by the Bonon family after the war. In 1921 he succeeded in acquiring a comparative collection of Greek pottery as a gift from the Hellenic Republic, that is used in teaching to our days. He cooperated on publication of ancient inscriptions from Delphi and co-authored several volumes of French publications of Delphi inscriptions that were published in the 1930s (and the last of them after the Second World War). Thanks to his erudition and political ties between young Czechoslovak Republic and France, he was accepted as a fellow to the French School in Athens. Immediately after habilitation, Antonín Salač went with a modest stipend to the Balkans and through Bulgaria to Greece. The book itself was published later in 1924. His next book, Studie k historikům římské doby revoluční ( Studies on the historians od the Roman revolutionary period) became basis for conferral of habilitation, which was finished in January 1920. These originally Egyptian gods became popular in the Hellenistic and Roman period, but their significance changed compared to their Egyptian origins, which was demonstrated through his study of inscriptions. In 1913 he studied cult of Isis in Berlin and in 1915 he published his still useful first book Isis, Sarapis a božstva sdružená dle svědectví řeckých a latinských nápisů ( Isis, Sarapis and associated gods according to the testimony of Greek and latin inscriptions). With thoroughness, he focused on the questions of ancient mythology and religion. The study on Virgil, called De pluralis poetici usu Vergiliano was submitted as dissertation and after its defense and final examination he was awarded doctorate on the 17th July 1909.Īfter finishing his studies he taught at high schools in Křemencová street in Prague, in Náchod and Roudnice, but at the same time he was dedicated to scientific endeavours. During his studies he already brought attention to himself with his works on Plato, Seneca’s tragedies and Virgil’s poetic style. This love led him to the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, where he studied under professors Josef Král and František Groh and finished Classical Philology with distinction in the shortest period possible in 1909. Antonín Salač was born in Prague, between 1896-1904 he studied high school in the Lesser Town of Prague, where he also acquired love for his future scholarly scpecialization – Antiquity.