scholarly journals O kulawym bogu Hefajstosie. W antycznej pracowni Jana Dormana

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
Justyna Biernat
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy ◽  
Radio Play

The paper is an analysis of Jan Dorman’s theatre practice in the context of the classical tradition. It examines the archival collections of The Theatre Institute documenting the collaboration of Jan Dorman with Anna Świrszczyńska on the staging of O kulawym bogu Hefajstosie (“The Lame God Hephaestus”), Świrszczyńska’s radio play. The extant  correspondence between the creators of the production and the director’s copies permit us to explore and analyse the ways in which classical antiquity inspired Dorman’s work. Although Dorman never adapted any ancient Greek text to the stage, his practice indicates a strong presence of the classical tradition, in particular the Greek comedy, in his mode of theatre.

scholarly journals Aspects of reception of classical heritage in biography of despot Stefan Lazarevic of Constantine the Philosopher

2011 ◽  
pp. 287-306
Author(s):  
Nenad Ristovic
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
High Estimate

The reception of the classical book heritage in the Biography of Despot Stefan Lazarevic of Constantine the Philosopher (of Kostenec) is noticed through the conspicuous reminiscences on classical antiquity, but it is also manifested through the use of artistic procedures of classical literature and the author?s high estimate of the accomplishment of pre-Christian Greek thought. In the first two types of classicism Constantine surpasses other medieval Serbian writers, while in the third he is unique among them, so his relying on classical tradition in this work is the result both of literary conventions caused by the choice of the genre of secular biography and of his belonging to the most liberal section of medieval Christian intellectuals.

Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-266
Author(s):  
Stephen White
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Modern Perspective

This chapter addresses Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers, which recounts the doings, sayings, and writings of the leading figures of ancient Greek philosophy from its origins down to its rapid efflorescence and institutionalization in the fourth and third centuries bc, with occasional glimpses of its continuing vitality in the centuries beyond. Diogenes’ Lives is an exceptional work on many counts. For one, it is the single largest collection of Lives to survive from classical Antiquity, handily surpassing Plutarch in number and scope if not in depth or length, and so too Philostratus and Suetonius. It is also a key witness to the early stages of biographical literature in the fourth and third centuries bc. At the same time, it presents the single most comprehensive account of the origins and development of an entire discipline, and a distinctive form of intellectual history from a biographical perspective. It also, accordingly, represents a distinctive form of life-writing, framed by basic biographical data but lean, often very lean on the standard biographical fare—from a modern perspective at least—of incident and narrative, and governed instead by its disciplinary orientation, and its sustained focus on philosophy as a distinctive cultural practice and way to live.

Introduction

Ladies' Greek ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yopie Prins
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Collective Identification ◽  
Victorian Women ◽  
Greek Alphabet ◽  
Women Of Letters

This book examines why Victorian women of letters such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sara Coleridge, and Virginia Woolf self-consciously performed collective identification with Greek letters and showed literary interest in their translations of with Greek tragedy. It considers how these women engaged with ideas about classical antiquity, and how much they contributed to the idealization of all things Greek. It discusses the ways in which women learned to read the Greek alphabet, to discover all the letters between alpha and omega, and how they turned ancient Greek into a language of and for desire. The book argues that nineteenth-century women writers turned to tragedy in particular as a literary genre for the performance of female classical literacy, and that their passionate reading of Greek led them into various forms of translation. Five tragedies are analyzed to elucidate the legacy of Ladies' Greek: Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and Bacchae.

Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Meredith E. Safran
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cultural Patrimony ◽  
Historical Societies

This volume introduction analyzes a pervasive fantasy in American popular media: the desire to escape an “iron age” deemed materially and morally degraded in comparison with an idealized lost world that people hope somehow to recover. This idealized “golden age” is viewed with the painful longing of nostalgia and the sorrow of belatedness from the degraded “iron age” of the viewer’s present time, often accompanied by inquiry into how and why golden conditions no longer obtain. Self-proclaimed heirs to classical antiquity’s cultural patrimony adopted this myth with alacrity, and its deployment can be traced continuously throughout the classical tradition, including in popular media not conventionally associated with classicism. The introduction reviews key strands of golden-age discourse in ancient Greek and Roman texts, including views on human-divine relations, gender relations, and technological innovations; and modern receptions of historical societies as golden ages to be emulated, especially Periclean Athens, Thermopylae-era Sparta, and Augustan Rome. Case studies include the Vergilian concept of “Arcadia” as deployed in the sci-fi television series The 100 and “golden age thinking” as a psychological malady in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.

Dictionaries as Translations

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Margaret Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Ancient Greek

Any reading of a Greek text is an act of translation. However, it is heavily mediated by those previous dialogues represented by the tools of scholarship, which may be regarded as a kind of secondary speech community for a language no longer spoken. Foremost among these tools for an Anglophone scholar has been Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon. The conversation in which one engages in consulting its glosses is at the very least three-way, involving not only ancient Greek and one’s own ‘mother tongue’, but also the English of Liddell and Scott. This chapter seeks to bring into sharper focus the vocabulary of the first edition’s glosses—a task rendered urgent not only by the passage of time but also by the fact that the editors had an axe to grind in selecting it.

scholarly journals Ancient Greek text concealed on the back of unrolled papyrus revealed through shortwave-infrared hyperspectral imaging

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. eaav8936 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Tournié ◽  
K. Fleischer ◽  
I. Bukreeva ◽  
F. Palermo ◽  
M. Perino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hyperspectral Imaging ◽  
Multispectral Imaging ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Text Reconstruction ◽  
Shortwave Infrared ◽  
The Way

Only a few Herculaneum rolls exhibit writing on their reverse side. Since unrolled papyri are permanently glued to paperboard, so far, this fact was known to us only from 18th-century drawings. The application of shortwave-infrared (SWIR; 1000-2500 nm) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to one of them (PHerc. 1691/1021) has revealed portions of Greek text hidden on the back more than 220 years after their first discovery, making it possible to recover this primary source for the ongoing new edition of this precious book. SWIR HSI has produced better contrast and legibility even on the extensive text preserved on the front compared to former imaging of Herculaneum papyri at 950 nm (improperly called multispectral imaging), with a substantial impact on the text reconstruction. These promising results confirm the importance of advanced techniques applied to ancient carbonized papyri and open the way to a better investigation of hundreds of other such papyri.

Hippocrates’ Oath

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.A. Cavanaugh
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ancient Greek

Chapter 2 (Hippocrates’ Oath) begins by extensively examining the grounds for attributing the Oath to Hippocrates, finding them reasonable. It then contextualizes, articulates, and explains the Oath, line by line. It presents the Oath within the ancient Greek custom of oath-taking, beginning with the first aspect of the Oath, the gods and goddesses by whom the juror swears. It then explains the contract incorporated within the Oath (which concerns the novel teaching of the medical art to unrelated males), presenting the motivations for and implications of Hippocrates’ extending medical education beyond the traditional boundary of physician-father educating son. Chapter 2 then proceeds to the oath-proper (which deals with a physician’s interactions with patients). In particular, closely following and explicating the Greek text, it shows that the prohibition of giving a deadly drug certainly concerns the giving of such a drug to the doctor’s patient (in contrast to alternative interpretations).

Nietzsches Antike

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babette Babich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

In addition to his lectures on Pre-Platonic philosophy, Nietzsche also ‘discovered’ the pronunciation of ancient Greek, as he claimed, out of the ‘spirit of music,’ given his theory of “quantititative rhythm.” This ‘spirit’ is reflected in Nietzsche’s engagement with classical music traditionally understood, particularly Beethoven but also Bizet and Wagner. The contributions to this book are drawn from essays and lectures given over a range of years on Nietzsche’s less well-known reflections on classical antiquity, poised between ascendance and decadence. In addition to Classics, literature, and philosophy, this book foregrounds the history of art, reading ancient Greek polychromy via the Laocoon. Babette Babich writes and teaches philosophy at Fordham University in New York City.

John Wilkins: The Boastful Chef. The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Gnomon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 577-581
Author(s):  
Ferruccio Conti Bizzarro
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Comedy ◽  
John Wilkins
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