After WW2, the fates of Slovenian classicists were often decided by their standing with the Communist Party. However, the documents penned by ‘Andrej’, a State Security informant now identified as Fran Petre, reveal their difficult game of keeping up ideologically acceptable appearances while striving to preserve some bygone autonomy. The relative lack of restric- tions enjoyed by the Department of Classical Philology in the decades that followed unpre- cedented destruction between 1945 and 1950 was based on the fact that its discipline became increasingly marginalised.Usoda slovenskih klasičnih filologov je bila po drugi svetovni vojni v marsičem določena z njihovim razmerjem do partije. Toda po pričevanju dokumentov Državne varnosti, kot jih je sestavljal »Andrej« (Fran Petre), se je za njihovo težavno dvojno igro vzdrževanja ideološko sprejemljive fasade skrivalo tudi prizadevanje za ohranitev nekdanje avtonomije. Relativna svoboda na Oddelku za klasično filologijo je v desetletjih, ki so sledila letom skorajda popolnega uničenja stroke v drugi polovici štiridesetih, temeljila na dejstvu, da je postajal študij vse bolj marginaliziran
