Studies of Greek and Roman Literature. Essays edited by Jerzy Styka, Classica Cracoviensia II, Cracow 1996
Jerzy STYKA, Foreword...................................................................... 1
Przedmowa ........................................................................................... 9
Stanistaw STABRYLA, The Influence of Classical Culture
on Modern Polish Literature....................................................... 11
Oswald PANAGL, Rhetorische Stilfiguren lateinischer Autoren
aus linguistischer Sicht................................................................25
Alfons WEISCHE, Cicero-Augustin-Anselm: Der Gedanke
der Unvergleichlichkeit Gottes (Zum Vortrag am 6.12.1995
in der Universitat Krakau) ..........................................................39
Maximilian FUSSL, 'Virtus und Voluptas'. Vom Wandel eines
allegorischen Gemaldes ..............................................................45
Bruce MACQUEEN, The Birth of the Novel in Antiquity ................. 57
Jerzy STYKA, Programmatische Anderungen in
der romischen Literatur der republikanischen Epoche............... 75
Johannes Jacobus SMOLENAARS, The Literary Tradition
of the locus horridus in Seneca's Thyestes.................................. 89
Hugo MONTGOMERY, Pontius Vita S. Cypriani
and the Ancient Biographical Tradition.................................... 109
Daniel den HENGST, Egyptomania and Egyptophobia
in Late Antiquity........................................................................ 119
Joanna KOMOROWSKA, Changing Attitude toward Science:
Astronomy in II AD.................................................................... 131
Lestaw MORAWIECKI, The Magic Case of a Dog in Antiquity.... 137
Dariusz BRODKA, Das Motiv der Krisenbewaltigung in der
spatantiken Literatur................................................................. 151
This second volume of the Classica Cracoviensia series is devoted to the problem of how transformations in civilization are reflected in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. The articles collected here made up the core of an international learned conference entitled "Greek and Roman Literature and the Transformations of Civilization in Antiquity", organized in December of 1995 by the Institute of Classical Philology at the Jagiellonian University, in cooperation with foreign centers.
Both of the ancient literatures, Greek and Roman, reflect the trans?formations of civilization that took place in the ancient societies under the impact of various social, political, religious, and philosophical forces; at the same time, the literatures themselves were undergoing profound changes, resulting from the development of the languages, from shifts in poetics, and from the changing needs of the audience. Beginning as early as the appearance of the Greek Sophists, and continuing to the Fathers of the Christian Church, we observe a recurring tendency to redefine the criteria of poetic art and the literary work, to reconsider established traditions and shape models of creativity adapted to the chang?ing tastes of the audiences.
The works published in Volume II of Classica Cracoviensia cover a wide thematic range, illustrating the wealth of changes in civilization that took place in Greco-Roman antiquity, changes that were not with?out influence on the shape of modern European culture. The volume is opened by S. Stabryte, with an article devoted to the influence of an?cient culture on modern Polish literature, with special attention to the transformations taking place in the literary consciousness of both author and audience. The next three works deal with the theory of the classical.........
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