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A review of Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin’s (1750–1807) translation of most of Horace’s Odes, Jan Achacy Kmita’s (?–1628) rendering of Virgil’s Eclogues and Jacek Idzi Przybylski’s (1756–1819) Polish version of the Georgics. All three translations, edited by Jacek Wójcicki, have been recently published in the series Biblioteka Aretuzy.
A short account of Walther Amelung’s life and his archeological achievements thanks to which many works of the most eminent Greek sculptors have been brought back from oblivion.
The article analyses the sentence in Jan Długosz’s (1415–1480) history of Poland that contains the metaphor Sirenei cantus. The author, criticizing the views of earlier scholars, Tadeusz Sinko and Anna Rogalanka, explains the syntax of the sentence and the meaning of the metaphor. He also indicates the direct source of the historian’s mythical allusion: Hier. Epist. 82, 5.
In the first book of his Physics, Aristotle investigates the principles and causes of natural things, and discusses the relevant theories of his predecessors. Having rejected the doctrine of the Eleatics (Phys. A 2–3), he turns in Phys. A 4 to the natural philosophers and argues against the infinity of Anaxagoras’ principles. This paper presents the interpretation of the Aristotelian discussion in...
The article discusses ancient motifs in the poetry of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, one of the most important exponents of classicism in modern Polish literature.
The present analysis concentrates on the comparisons of mortals to gods in Catullus' poems. Such a comparison appears three times in the corpus of Catullus’ short poems, namely in c. 51, 70 and 72. Even though the similes themselves may appear analogous, it may be argued that their function is different in c. 51 and different in two latter examples.
A review of Idaliana Kaczor’s Polish book Deus. Ritus. Cultus. A Study of the Character of The Ancient Romans’ Religion, criticizing the work for its disregard of the newest research on the subject.
A presentation of a fragment of a 10th-century manuscript of Ovid’s epos recently found in the National Archive in Cracow in the binding of the 16th-century town judicial book. The fragment contains Ov. Met. V 127, 175–177, 187–188 and VII 25–26, 75–76. Additionally, it comprises crucial common readings with some later manuscripts: Marcianus Florentinus 223, Erfurtensis Amplonianus F 1 and Palatinus...
An analysis of aetiological stories and animal fables in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon, with special regard to their role in the novel and to their compliance with the rhetorical teachings of the Second Sophistic.
A short synopsis of the life and works of the late Rev. Henryk Wójtowicz (1928–2012), professor of the Catholic University of Lublin, widely known for his studies on Greek writers from Homer to Nonnus and St. John Damascene, and on Latin Christian authors, such as Tertullian and St. Augustine.
A short biography of the late Professor Jerzy Starnawski, an eminent scholar specializing in Old Polish and Neo-Latin literature, associated first with the Catholic University of Lublin and later with the University of Łódź.
An analysis of the selected foreign language glosses quoted in Pseudo-Plutarch’s work De fluviis shows that the anonymous author succeeded in correctly conveying the meanings of the non-Greek proper names and appellatives.
In Crinagoras’ epigram 27, written a year or two after Augustus’ death, the expression DEXIA SHMAINEIN, borrowed from Arat. 6, seems to allude to the image of the late emperor as a star foreboding happiness to the Roman world.
Doctor Regina Schächter was a classical philologist and high school teacher in Stanisławów (today’s Ivanofrankivsk) and Brzeżany. We cite here a press review of the performance of Antigone presented by her pupils in Stanisławów in September 1928.
The author, a Hellenist and professor of the University of Łódź, relates her meetings and talks with Jan Parandowski, an eminent Polish writer fascinated with antiquity.
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