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After quoting some Polish translations of Hor. Carm. I 11, the author analyses the ode, paying special attention to aspects that are usually lost in translation.
A team of Polish Classical scholars has written a comprehensive survey, in two volumes, from Homer to the VI century AD, entitled 'Literatura Grecji starozytnej' (The Literature of Ancient Greece) . The work was edited by Henryk Podbielski, fellow of the Catholic University of Lublin. The present text is a review of the first part of vol. I, devoted to epic poetry.
Henryk Struve's article published in the weekly 'Klosy' is devoted to the disdain and ignorance of the Latin language and classical culture shown by the author's contemporaries. This article is reprinted here with some remarks on the ignorance of Latin in our time.
A critical essay on Margaret Atwood's 'The Penelopiad.The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus'. An attempt made by Atwood to reread the myth of Penelope might be easily disregarded as a trivial postmodernist pastiche bearing too much resemblance to school assignments. Yet it is argued here that the novel deserves more serious consideration as belonging to the genre of 'historicizing writings' instead of...
In his 'Natural History' Pliny the Elder aims at presenting various philosophers' views on science and at showing his readers the force of nature. He not only follows the Stoics in regarding god and nature as identical, but also makes use of their notions of sympathy and antipathy that are for him the most important laws of nature. In his system, sympathy and antipathy have the same function as laws...
One of the most famous passages written by Gombrowicz is his parody of a Latin lesson in 'Ferdydurke'. The present article examines the writer's knowledge of the ancient world and languages and his attitude towards them. It also shows how his parody of schoolboys' translations of Caesar was reproduced in various languages by Gombrowicz's translators.
The article relates various etymologies of the name 'Egeria' that have been proposed by scholars. The most probable of them is the one proposed by Aldo Prosdocimi, who connects it with the Indoeuropean root meaning 'lake'. The hypothesis has given rise to some difficulties that are here dealt with.
The author presents the new fragments of Sappho (P. Koeln 21351 + 21376) and Archilochus (P. Oxy. LXIX 4708), gives a short review of the research to date, makes some textual and intepretative suggestions of his own, and adds an 'apparatus criticus' to the text of Sappho proposed by Gronewald and Daniel. At the end of the first fragment of Sappho (line 8), he reads 'qala/mois a)ei/dw' ('nuptias cano'),...
Pindar mentions dessert three times in his poems. The article explains the form and the function of desserts in Pindar's time and tries to answer the question of why and how the poet uses dessert as a metaphor.
Hegel was the first modern thinker that appreciated the sophists' role in the intellectual history of mankind. Without consideration of their teachings as philosophy, he nevertheless emphasized the cultural role of their tendency to consider things from various points of view and to look for the sources of law and morality.
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