Collectanea Philologica
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Barbara Bibik,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika,
bb@umk.pl
Jan Kasprowicz, lived in 1860–1926, whose fame and glory is nowadays in the shadow, in his time was considered one of the greatest and most important Polish poets and authors. He was a diligent translator, who made Polish public accustomed with a great number of pieces of worldwide literature. He made about eighty translations of different works which is a huge and rare number, especially when taking...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Małgorzata Budzowska,
Jadwiga Czerwińska,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Łódzki,
more
Ancient myths from the Mediterranean Culture often become a language used to express current social and political anxieties. In the contemporary theatre ancient myths are deconstructed and subverted according to the postmodern dialogue with tradition. Aesthetic changes are accompanied by the ideological modifications. This obviously crisis position of myth is associated with the method of de-contextualization...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Orazio Antonio Bologna,
Facoltà di Lettere Cristiane e Classiche Università Pontifica Salesiana,
orazioantonio.bologna@fastwebnet.it
Per breuem et luculentam uestigationem auctor primus de Ioannis Petri Arriuabeni poesi agit. Poeta enim illa floruit aetate, qua per doctissimos uiros humanae litterae sunt funditus renouatae. In doctissimis illis uiris fuit et Ioannes Petrus Arriuabenus, qui, cum duo scripsisset carmina, postremis his saltem temporibus, minime poeta memoratur. Auctor, innumeris inquisitionibus perfectis, duo tantum...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Katarzyna Głogowska,
Uniwersytet Łódzki,
katarzyna.glogowska@op.pl
In text below the author would like to take this opportunity to raise the issue of the possibility of presenting during Latin lessons wide range of information relating to the myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. A lesson dedicated to the Olympian gods will serve as an example of such practice. This lesson will provide a starting point for students and it will enable them to meet the fascinating...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Anna Garczewska,
ul. Prosta 4 Kolegium Jagiellońskie Toruńska Szkoła Wyższa (KJ-TSW),
annatorun@gmail.com
‘Is there some other form of law?’ – that is how Gaius Iulius Caesar (played by Ciaran Hinds) in the TV series ‘Rome’ comments on Roman Law. ‘Rome’ (2005–2007) is a historical drama set in the last days of the Roman Republic. It is one of the most interesting shows helping to visualize Rome. One of the elements portrayed in the series is Roman Law. Although there is a criminal trial presented in one...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Mercedes Aguirre,
Facultad de Filologia Departamento de Filología Griega,
macics@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract Expressionism can be seen as a valid expression of the crisis of ‘Modern Man’ and, as a result, it assumed a central role in the cultural debate of its time. Within this crisis can be situated a new form of representing the ancient myths. William Baziotes, an artist who belongs to the New York School, becomes a modern ‘myth-maker’ who creates metaphors and symbols which refer to primitive...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Magdalena Hasiuk,
Zakład Historii i Teorii Teatru Instytut Sztuki PAN,
mahas@go2.pl
The text discusses influences and oriental inspirations, mainly Indian and Japanese, present in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays (Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Twelfth Night), Euripides (Iphigenia at Aulis) i Aeschylus (Oresteia) in the Théâtre du Soleil. Owing to the incorporation of ‘the imagined orient’ in the Shakespearean cycle, Mnouchkine evoked the image of the world immersed in the supernatural...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Gildo Iacoviello,
Pontifical Faculty of Science Education Auxilium of Rome,
gildo.iacoviello@tiscali.it
In the following article we have tried to analyze the consolation of God in the Pauline ministry tests. The reason that prompted me to address the topic of consolation of God, finds its explanation in the fact that too often we focus on the sufferings of this time without cast an eye over a horizon of hope. The works we have examined could be a source of consolation for the man who is living moments...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Jadwiga Czerwińska,
Instytut Romanistyki Uniwersytet Łódzki,
jadwiga.czerwinska@interia.pl
Scholia represent the literary genre that belongs to the scientific literature. Being commentaries to other literary texts, scholia constitute an important source of knowledge about ancient culture. They can provide information concerning language, history, society, literature, and theatre, however, their form and specific language demand a comprehensive and contextual translation. Most of scholia...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Joanna Sowa,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Łódzki,
glauks@wp.pl
In this paper I discuss the problem of the borderline between the lack of resemblance to any family member and monstrosity in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals. In book IV both phenomena have been explained as a result of ‘resolution’ or ‘loosening’ of the ‘movements’ in the sperm, whose function is to recreate in the offspring’s body the features of its parents or ancestors. Consequently, sometimes...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Barbara Bibik,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika,
bb@umk.pl
Following the voice of Penelope is the review of a play based on one of the Homer’s greatest epic poem – Odyssey, staged by Ondrej Spišák in the Warsaw puppet theatre „Teatr Lalka”. This artistically beautiful, full of magic and awarded staging, first performed in 1999, still finds its audience. It is definitely worth spending an hour in the theatre to see this enchanting ancient world created on...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Dorota Gorzelany,
Patrycja Matusiak,
Princes Czartoryski Museum National Museum in Kraków,
more
The purpose of this paper is to present the historiophotic image of Carthage and Carthaginians and also to demonstrate what made-up stories take from the image of antiquity present in our collective consciousness, what motifs were an inspiration for the creators of both the film and the TV series (hictorical motifs but also architecture – very important for the background, e.g. Punic temple of Moloch...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Agnieszka Siech,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Łódzki,
agnieszka_siech@wp.pl
This article discusses briefly the character of Merlin created by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his early twelfth-century poem Vita Merlini and draws analogies between Merlin’s figure in the poem and earlier, mainly Welsh, sources, as well as the thirteenth-century French literature. Following Merlin’s character development and the major motifs connected with his figure across medieval texts the article...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Hanna Zalewska-Jura,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Łódzki,
hanna.zalewska@uni.lodz.pl
The article aims to present one of the possible interpretations of a unique noun ekchyton found in the epigram of Palladas of Alexandria AP IX 395. As its meaning seems at least doubtful, it makes the satisfactory translation and interpretation of the poem utterly unachievable. The problem may be solved, if we recognize the word ekchyton as a sociolect, which corresponds with another noun egchytos...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Mariola Sobolewska,
Instytut Filologii Klasycznej Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski,
poeta4@wp.pl
I will discuss the connection between Linos and Orphics as it is outlined in the Description of Greece. Pausanias writes that Linos propagated in his songs the genealogy of the first deities of the Greek pantheon. According to Pausanias, this genealogy was similar to the one in Hesiod’s Theogony. Pausanias himself believed that the majority of Linos’ works were inauthentic. He was of the opinion that...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Robert K Zawadzki,
Instytut Filologii Polskiej Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie Zakład Literatury Antycznej i Staropolskiej,
robertkzawadzki@wp.pl
The article offers insights on the reception and literary transmission of the religious and biblical threads running through the astronomical treatise Introductorium compendiosum in Tractatum sphaerae materialis Ioannis de Sacrobusto of Jan of Głogów. As a narrative and historical book, the Bible offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and apocryphal works of fiction, which...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Małgorzata Budzowska,
Jadwiga Czerwińska,
Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytet Łódzki,
more
The present paper tends to analyze the procedure of intersemiotic translation of ancient myth of Phaedra, in its written version by Euripides (Hippolytus), into the contemporary stage production of Phaedra by Maja Kleczewska. The analysis of the performance is preceded by the extended introduction regarding reception of myth in general, and reception of Phaedra myth in particular. In this context,...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Józef Macjon
In reference to a comparative study of Sienkiewicz' s historical trilogy three episodes in The
Deluge bear striking resemblance to those in Odyssey (translated by Lucjan Siemieński) - the fact
that seems to have escaped to critics' notice. The story of Kmicic's bow, especially a description of the archer's action just about to shoot
an arrow, together with an accompanying simile (The Deluge, vol...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Krzysztof Witczak
Breviter traetatur de professoris Stephani Oświecimski stud.iis, quae Cretenses litteras,
explanandas spectant. In aliquot opusculis professoris Bohemi Frederici Hrozny litterarum
Cretensium mendosas explanationes vituperabat (a. 1950), harom quoque litterarum indagationes
docte disserebat (a. 1955), litterarum cultusque Graeci continuationem affirmabat (a. 1959),
nonnulas scripturae Mycenaeae...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,
Zbigniew Danek
W odcinku platońskiego dialogu "Fajdros" poświęconym krytyce pisma wypowiadana jest
myśl przeciwstatwiająca prostoduszność słuchaczy dawnej wyroczni wybrednym upodobaniom
młodych: Młodym nie wystarcza wysłuchać prawdy, oceniają też osobę mówiącego (275b5-c2).
Przedstawione rozważanie zmierza do uzasadnienia obecności w kontekście dialogu tej uwagi,
pozornie odchodzącej treścią od platońskiej...