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The author revives here his memories of Professor Kazimierz Kumaniecki's seminars devoted to textual criticism of the 'De oratore' in 1967-1972. In his approach to Cicero's work, Kumaniecki proved to be a forerunner of the scholars of the last decade who introduce the problems of orality and use of writing into its interpretation. Similar problems are present in Adam Mickiewicz's lectures on Latin...
This article presents and compares four different interpretations of the Homeric concept of 'self'. According to the first, the Homeric man has no concept of himself as a psychic unity, but only as a number of physical and psychical organs (Bruno Snell). The second says that he perceives himself as a complex but unified structure of psychical and physical elements (Norman Austin). According to the...
A comparison of the life and poetry of Ovid and of Philippus Callimachus (Filippo Buonaccorsi, 1437-1496) during their exile from Italy. Although there are some undeniable analogies between their fates on the whole, Callimachus' state of mind in exile, his relations with his new neighbours and the tone of his poetry are all quite different than Ovid's. All this is due especially to the fact that he...
An edition of an autograph manuscript of Adam Krokiewicz (1890-1977), a professor of the University of Warsaw, famous for his research on ancient philosophy and literature. The manuscript seems the beginning of a much larger work, either lost or never finished. In this fragment the author looks for the rationale of the Greek belief that future events can be foreseen; he also discusses the relationship...
Jan Potocki, the author of 'The Manuscript Found in Saragossa', visited Egypt in 1784 and wrote an interesting diary of this journey. Two decades later, he published four books on ancient Egyptian chronology. One of them, 'Dynasties du second livre de Manéthon', published in Florence in 1803, is discussed in this article.
In order to determine the number of inhabitants of the city of Rome in the imperial period, scholars have used four methods. The first one takes into account the amount of grain distributed each day to the population, the second one the quantity of grain imported to Rome every year, the third one the number of houses and insulae, the fourth one, less useful for the period discussed in this article,...
A short comedy in two versions, Latin and Polish, developing the myth, popularised by Euripides' Helen. Its relations to that tragedy and to other ancient sources are discussed in the introduction.
Fryderyk Tripplin was born in Weimar in Saxonia, studied Classical Philology in Jena, where he obtained a doctorate, and spent the rest of his life in Kalisz, Pinczów and Tomaszów Mazowiecki. His main object of interest was the ancient cult of Lares and Penates.
The late Ihor Sevcenko, one of the most eminent Byzantologists and professor of Harvard University, was born near Warsaw to a Ukrainian family and maintained close ties with Polish scholars. The authoress of the article discusses the scholar's life and works and tells about her contacts with him during her stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC during the academic year 1986-1987.
A close look at the mentions of fear and similar affects in Sallust's works shows that he regarded them as an important factor in politics. His attitude in this matter does not differ much from that of Thucydides; but Sallust goes even further than his predecessor and presents fear as the essence of power, both in domestic and in external relations.
In his 1534 Latin poem on the illness of the Polish King Sigismundus I that was a consequence of his hunting expedition, Marcin Kromer introduces the myth of Cephalus and Procris. Borrowing the subject from Ovid (Met. VII 690-862), Kromer presents only the last part of the history of this unhappy couple and does not dwell on the husband's and wife's emotions as much as his predecessor. This passage...
A review of Katarzyna Marciniak's book 'Cicero vortit barbare'. Though the book has many assets, some doubts can be raised against its thesis that Cicero often deliberately changed the sense of Greek texts he was translating in order to achieve his aims, dictated by the interest of the republic.
The authoress shows various ways used by Lucan to introduce an atmosphere of horror into his poem. Fear is visible not only in his descriptions of battles but also in the images of the universe dissolving itself into chaos. In the course of this transformation, all four of the elements, freed from their cosmic frame and at war one with another, bring harm and death to human beings and animals. Hate...
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