Studies in Classical Literature and Culture – serie
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Sparta: History, State and Society
Inbunden, 2022
871 kr
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SHS-Award for the best book in Ancient History in 2022 of the Polish Society for Ancient Studies.Richly illustrated with citations from ancient authors, the book Sparta introduces the reader to the universe of a polis which in the fifth and fourth century BC was a Greek superpower. Part I describes …
Carminis Personae – Character in Roman Poetry
Av Maria Grazia Iodice, Mariusz Zagorski
Inbunden, 2014
682 kr
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This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. The list of authors discussed in the book includes the most prominent poets of Augustan and Imperial period like Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Lucan and …
Ancient Myths in the Making of Culture
Av Małgorzata Budzowska, Jadwiga Czerwińska
Inbunden, 2014
1082 kr
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The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which took place at the University of Łódź (Poland) …
Glossae – Scholia – Commentarii
Studies on Commenting Texts in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Av Mieczyslaw Mejor, Katarzyna Jazdzewska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
782 kr
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The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and Arabic texts commented in …
Monstrous World
Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles’ «Mirabilia»
Inbunden, 2016
646 kr
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Revenants, oracular heads, hermaphrodites, sex-changers, human-animal children, multiple pregnancies, births, body features … This is just a sample of subjects that Phlegon of Tralles explored in the 2nd century AD in his "Mirabilia". This study identifies the common motifs of Phlegon’s text and …
Legein ta legomena. Herodotus' Stories as Natural Narrative
Av Iwona Wieżel, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2018
544 kr
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In the aftermath of the Persian Wars, not only new geopolitical borders were established in the Hellenic world, but there also emerged an intracultural line between the worlds of oral and increasing textual modes of communication. This book seeks to prove that these cultural changes are mirrored in …
Narses. Politik, Krieg Und Historiographie
Av Dariusz Brodka, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2018
874 kr
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Das Buch untersucht die Karriere des Eunuchen Narses und bietet einen Einblick in die Faktoren, die zu seinem politischen Aufstieg beitrugen. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht sein realer Wirkungskreis, der sich im Laufe vieler Missionen kristallisierte, während er als kaiserlicher Sonderbeauftragter …
versione greca dell'orazione "Pro Archia poeta" di Mikolaj Żórawski (1632)
Contributi all'edizione e allo studio del testo
Av Roberto Peressin, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2020
721 kr
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Nel solco degli studi sul "greco umanistico", che negli ultimi decenni hanno conosciuto un notevole e fervido sviluppo, il volume presenta il caso di una rara traduzione in greco classico della celebre orazione "Pro Archia poeta" di Cicerone. Com’è noto, a partire da Petrarca e per generazioni essa …
In the Shadow of Djoser’s Pyramid
Research of Polish Archaeologists in Saqqara
Inbunden, 2020
835 kr
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The book presents the discoveries made by the Polish archaeological mission in Saqqara, the central part of the largest ancient Egyptian royal necropolis. The area adjacent to the Pyramid of King Djoser on the monument’s west side, so far neglected by archaeologists, turned out to be an important …
Church Histories" of Theodore Lector and John Diakrinomenos
Av Rafał Kosiński, Kamilla Twardowska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
783 kr
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This book provides the reader with a comprehensive edition of the Church Histories by John Diakrinomenos and Theodore Lector. It contains the original texts along with translations into English and a commentary. We offer a completely new edition, which should be a convenient tool to be used by the …
Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece
Av Maciej Junkiert, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2020
851 kr
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Ancient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many 19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s fascination with Greek history and culture, especially his …
Textualization of Experience
Studies on Ancient Greek Literature
Av Paweł Majewski, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2020
740 kr
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The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the “textualization of experience", that is, transferred …
Exempla externa" in Cicero’s Orations
A Rhetorical Approach
Av Damian Pierzak, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2021
506 kr
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Historical exempla were an important part of the Roman political discourse. They could serve as a moral guide to conduct, but also lend credibility to an orator’s argument. In his extant orations, Cicero often draws parallels between his contemporaries and the old Romans or, less frequently, he …
Magic as an Element of Political Debate in the Historiography and Imperial Biography of the 1st -5th Centuries AD
A Study of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus
Av Justyna Migdał, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2023
657 kr
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The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offering insight into the way language of magic and ritual pollution is used as means of characterization and historiosophical commentary on the nature …
Marsilii de Inghen Quaestiones super quattuor libros Sententiarum"
Super secundum, quaestiones 8-10
Av Paweł Superat, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2023
671 kr
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The presented volume contains a critical edition of questions 8–10 from Book II of the commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by Marsilius of Inghen († 1396). Marsilius was a famous scholar and the first rector of the University of Heidelberg, educated in Paris. He influenced next generations of …
New Greeks
Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of Altertumswissenschaft
Av Maciej Junkiert, Mikolaj Szymański
Inbunden, 2024
735 kr
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The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predecessors in this field in France and the German-speaking culture. The book describes scholarly rivalry …
De Philippo Callimacho elegicorum Romanorum imitatore
Inbunden, 2025
561 kr
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Juliusz Domański, whose book Le texte comme présence was published recently in our series, wrote his doctoral thesis (printed in 1966) on Fannietum, a cycle of amatory elegies by Filippo Buonaccorsi (Callimachus), a humanist exiled from Italy who settled in Poland and exerted influence on the …
Le Texte Comme Présence
Contribution À l'Histoire de la Réflexion Sur Le Texte Et Le Livre
Av Juliusz Domański, Mikolaj Szymanski
Inbunden, 2017
672 kr
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Commençant par Homère et finissant avec les héritiers de l’humanisme de la Renaissance au XVII e siècle, on suit ici les réflexions sur la puissance particulière des mots écrits, donc du texte. Grâce à sa puissance, il rend effectivement présents pour ses lecteurs tous ceux dont il parle, et qui …
