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The article discusses three issues concerning Illus' political activity in 479-484: his stance toward the usurper Marcian in 479, his leaving Constantinople in 482, and his reluctance to seek imperial power.
Two chapters from an unfinished novel by Kazimierz Kumaniecki, the eminent Polish classical scholar (1905-1977), edited from the autograph by Anna Zawalska and preceded by Juliusz Domanski's brief remarks on the genesis of the work.
The author, a classical philologist and historian of ideas, describes his studies at the University of Warsaw under the direction of two eminent scholars, Kazimierz Kumaniecki and Adam Krokiewicz.
A remembrance of Irena Szeligowska-Orell, an archaeologist and ancient art historian who worked at the former Stefan Batory University of Vilnius and the Jagiellonian University of Cracow.
Two articles that first appeared in the Polish press during World War I are reprinted. Józef Kotarbinski, a well known theatrologist, expressed his conviction that the study of social science and economics would be much more useful for high school students than ancient Greek. Jerzy Rosciszewski, then a student of Classics, and later a translator of Catullus, Horace and Ovid, defended the value of...
Allusions to Horace's earlier poems seem to indicate that in Odes 4.1 the subject's reluctance to return to love expresses the poet's doubts whether he should return to writing.
The article discusses apotympanismus - a method of execution, known from Athens in the 5th cent. B.C., where it was reserved mainly for traitors. This punishment is mentioned, directly or indirectly, in the Third Book of Maccabees and in various sources concerning Egypt under Ptolemaic rule.
A Polish version of the first three chapters of 'Liber de Caesaribus' by Aurelius Victor, preceded by an introduction discussing the literary genre, the life of the author and the form and contents of his work on the Roman emperors.
In the period between January 13th and March 4th 1907 the young Polish Egyptologist Tadeusz Smolenski (1884-1909) led excavations in Sharuna and Gamhud. On February 2nd he discovered a blue faience scarab with hieroglyphic signs on its base. According to the observations noted in his Diary, the formula that would fall into the so-called category of personal piety read mrj Jmnrc mrj.sw, 'Amun-Re loves...
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,...
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