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The text is an analysis of the story of Dido as shown in Virgil’s Aeneid. The author presents pre-Virgiliansources of the history of the Phoenician queen, recounts the three principal versions of Dido’s biography andsets the Virgil’s narration against the opinions of ancient commentators (Servius, Macrobius) and other Romanwriters reminiscing about Dido’s ill-fated past. All the testimonies bring...
The aim of this article is to present the ways in which Arnobius speaks of the body and its sexuality, in particularhis linguistic strategies employed to articulate sexual terms. It analyses those fragments of AdversusNationes where the Rhetorician of Sicca Veneria does not shy away from sexual terms describing various bodyparts, yet is far from being vulgar or literal. Arnobius’s apologia constitutes...
This paper presents the letters of Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary, called “an Apostle of the Far East”, asa kind of episolographical autobiography. In a short time after publication of his letters, the missionary workof Francis Xavier, which he himself describes in detail, became a model for all later activities of the Societyof Jesus in Asia and all New World.
The text compares Roman ludi (mainly venationes), with Spanish tauromachy. Although there is no continuoustradition there are some universal similarities in their elements. We illustrate this by means of three comparisons:between the symbolical space of bullrings and amphiteatres, between the glory of gladiators and torerosas well as its influence on the world art, and finally between the ancient...
The paper aims to present some aspects of Janicki’s poetry devoted to various existence problems of thosetimes, i. e. the social poor, education opportunities for them, and insisting on the nobility taking greater careof the country.
In this article the author presents the references and allusions to wine in the 1.1 – 12.138 Dionysiaka of Nonnus.The analysis of the passages excerpted from the Dionysiaka shows that wine is present in Nonnos’ epos beforeits discovering in book 12. The presence of wine in the first 12 book of Dionysiaka has great significance forthe composition and unity of Nonnus’ poem as based on the principle...
In the New Testament, there are over thirty Aramaic words and phrases that are transcribed into Greek characters.Approximately half of them are personal and place names. Another half are individual words and fourshort phrases. This paper catalogues them and proposes Aramaic counterparts.
The author’s scope is to briefly present the life and the area of scientific interest of Jan Horowski, an outstandingscholar, especially in the Greek literature and school didactics of Latin.
Louis MacNeice translated Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in such a way that some were reminded of T.S. Eliot’s playMurder in the Cathedral. Both plays were staged in the mid-1930s in England, and the authors correspondedwith each other. At first sight, this is the story of a minor figure imitating greater stylishness. A closer analysis,however, reveals that Eliot drew largely on Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. This is...
The paper contains a presentation of the profile and scholarly achievements of the famous Polish classicist andbyzantinologist Professor Oktawiusz Jurewicz (1926–2016). Moreover, a list of his publications is included.
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