A handbook to classical reception in eastern and central Europe / edited by Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana Lacourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torlone, Zara M., editor.

Munteanu, Dana LaCourse, 1972- editor.

Dutsch, Dorota, editor.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation--Europe, Eastern.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--Appreciation--Europe, Central.

Classical literature--Appreciation--Russia (Federation).

Classical literature--Appreciation--Georgia (Republic).

Classical literature--Appreciation--Armenia (Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (629 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

* A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies ofthirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. * The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe * Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise * Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas * Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture * Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Why This Volume?

Contexts

Challenges: Competition, Marxist Demotion, and Pragmatism

Reinstatements: Imaginary Realms and Redefinitions of the Classics

Trajectory

Conclusion

Notes

References

Part I Croatia

Chapter 1 Classical Reception in Croatia: An Introduction

A Civilization and a Takeover

A Father and a Metonymy

The Illyrians and Saint Jerome

Aristotle, Olympiad, Sarcophagus, Pirates

Chapter 2 Pula and Split: The Early Modern Tale(s) of Two Ancient Cities

Pula and Split: Antiquity in the Early Modern Urban Context

The Renaissance Fortune of Pula Antiquities and the Three Drawings of Split

Rediscovering Pula in the Eighteenth Century

Split Arouses International Interest: The Diocletian Palace in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Croatian Neo-Latin Literature and Its Uses

Cadmus in Dalmatia: Thomas the Archdeacon of Split (c.1200-1268)1

Peaches in a Letter: Ilija Crijević (1463-1520)

From the Borderline: Nikola Mikac (1592) and Bartol Kašić (1575-1650)

A Philological Joke: Ignjat Đurđević (1675-1737)

Language from Another World: Ton Smerdel (1904-1970)

Note

Chapter 4 The First Dalmatian Humanists and the Classics: A Manuscript Perspective

Men of Empire and the Classics: The Diffusion of Venetian Patrician Humanism

Provincial Elites and the Classics: The First Two Generations of Dalmatian Patrician Humanism

The Third Generation Arises: Snippets from the Classroom (MS BAV Vat. lat. 5174)

Ancient Past and Contemporary Politics: Ilija Banjvarić, Curtius Rufus, and the Origins of the Turks (MS BL Add. 6794).

Some Considerations and Further Directions

Manuscripts Cited

Chapter 5 The Swan Song of the Latin Homer

Kunić and Zamanja: Parallel Lives

Arcadia: Il buon gusto

Kunić and His Iliad

Zamanja and His Odyssey

Conclusion and Suggestions for the Future

Part II Slovenia

Chapter 6 Classical Reception in Slovenia: An Introduction

Chapter 7 Collecting Roman Inscriptions Beyond the Alps: Augustinus Tyfernus

Roman Stone Monuments: An Almost Lost Treasure

Augustinus Tyfernus: A Few Biographical Notes

Tyfernus' Manuscript Epigraphic Collections

Who Was Antiquus Austriacus?

Tyfernus as a Collector of Roman Inscriptions

Aftermath of Tyfernus' Epigraphic Activity

Chapter 8 Sta. Maria sopra Siwa: Inventing a Slavic Venus

Chapter 9 Images from Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical Interpretations of Ancient Drama

An Initiation

Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical Interpretations of Ancient Drama in Brief: "Europeization" and "Slovenian‐ness"

Historical Circumstances

Absent Antigone and Creon with a Tulip

Longing, Ontological Surrealism, and Transcendence

The Tragic Truth

Powerful Men of Empty Hands and Slovenian Polyneiceses

Orestes in a Net

The Page of the Corn-Gold Hair

Antigone Not Fulfilling Her Promise and Orestes Wearing a Paper Crown

Why Myth?

Part III Czech Republic

Chapter 10 Classical Reception in the Czech Republic: An Introduction

Chapter 11 Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature between the National Revival and the Avant-Garde

Jaroslav Vrchlický

Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic

Josef Svatopluk Machar

Chapter 12 The Classical Tradition and Nationalism: The Art and Architecture of Prague, 1860-1900.

The Case of Tyrš and His Laocoön

The Case of Czech neo-Renaissance Architecture

The Case of Schnirch, Myslbek, and Classical Sculpture

Further Reading

Chapter 13 The Case of the Oresteia: Classical Drama on the Czech Stage, 1889-2012

Part IV Poland

Chapter 14 Classical Reception in Poland: An Introduction

Chapter 15 From Fictitious Letters to Celestial Revolutions: Copernicus and the Classics

In remotissimo angulo terrae

Fidus Achates: Copernicus's Loyalties

E floscorum varietate: Theophylactus's letters

Tanquam testamento relicta: The Dialectics of Truth

Contulit devia notasse: In Praise of the Paths Not Taken

Ne quis arbitretur: Copernicus's Independence

Ad communem utilitatem: Conclusion

Chapter 16 Respublica and the Language of Freedom: The Polish Experiment

Acknowledgment

Chapter 17 Two Essays on Classical Reception in Poland

"Latin as the Language of Freedom"

"Difficult Graft: Polish Hellenism(s)"

Slavia Romana-Slavia Byzantina

The Loss of Independence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Philhellenism and the Struggle for Independence

Chapter 18 Parallels between Greece and Poland in Juliusz Słowacki's Oeuvre

Leonidas's Naked Corpse: Spartan Heroism Without Hope

God's Cause Prior to Christ - Leonidas's Sacrifice

Patriotism as a "Completely Spiritual Virtue"

The Greek Idea and the Polish Idea: "Fighting for the World in the Land of the Spirit"

Part V Hungary

Chapter 19 Classical Reception in Hungary: An Introduction

Chapter 20 Classical Reception in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Drama

Classical Comedy in Hungary.

Sophocles' Electra in Hungarian

Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis in Hungarian

Chapter 21 Truditur dies die: Reading Horace as a Political Attitude in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hungary

"Horatianism" Pro and Contra: How to Be "Horace" in Hungary

Reading Horace as a Form of "Passive Resistance": Jókai Reads Odes 2.18

Reading Horace as "Inner Emigration:" Kerényi Reads Epode 16

Chapter 22 The Shepherdess and the Myrmillo: The Sculptor István Ferenczy and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Hungary

Part VI Romania

Chapter 23 Classical Reception in Romania: An Introduction

Chapter 24 Loving Vergil, Hating Rome: Coşbuc as Translator and Poet

Chapter 25 Noica's Becoming within Being and Meno's Paradox

Noica the Teacher

Noica the Philosopher

Chapter 26 Reception of the Tropaeum Traiani: Former Paths and Future Directions

Part VII Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro

Chapter 27 Classical Reception in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro: An Introduction

Between East and West

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Serbia

Chapter 28 Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography of Bosnia (Eighteenth Century)

Chapter 29 Innovative Impact of the Classical Tradition on Early Modern Serbian Literature

Intellectual Enrichment

Adoption and Adaptation of Classical Literary Genres and Techniques

Imitation of Classical Versification and the Peak of Neoclassicism

Beginning of the Rearticulation of Neoclassical Poetics

Chapter 30 Classical Heritage in Serbian Lyric Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Jovan Dučić, Miloš Crnjanski, and Ivan V. Lalić.

Note

Chapter 31 The Ancient Sources of Njegoš's Poetics

Historical Background

Education and Early Oeuvre

Later Work

The Mountain Wreath

Last Writings

Part VIII Bulgaria

Chapter 32 Classical Reception in Bulgaria An Introduction

Historical Context Issues

Classical Education in Bulgaria: A Broader Context of Classical Reception

Chapter 33 Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity: A Melting Pot of Thracian, Greek, and Roman Culture

At the Crossroads of the Balkans

The Sequel of Antiquity: The Byzantine Empire and the First Bulgarian State

Science versus Ideologemes

Chapter 34 In the Labyrinth of Allusions: Ancient Figures in Bulgarian Prose Fiction

What Kind of Hero is the Bulgarian Odysseus?

Antiquity as a Setting: Historical Novels and Ancient Enigmas

Antiquity of Our Own

Straying in the Labyrinth

Chapter 35 "Bulgarian" Orpheus between the National and the Foreign, between Antiquity and Postmodernism

Orpheus in Bulgaria: Foreign and/or Native Hero

Orpheus: Borderline Hero of Literary Postmodernism

Orpheus: Devoted Lover or Traitor and Misogynist

Orpheus: Thracian Poet and Christian God

Chapter 36 Staging of Ancient Tragedies in Bulgaria and Their Influence on the Process of Translation and Creative Reception

The Role of Theater Translations and Staging in the Shaping of Modern Bulgarian Culture

Specificity of Translating Drama

Early Translations of Ancient Drama in Bulgaria

Alexander Balabanov and the Influence of the Staging of Medea Based on His Translation

Medea by L. Groys

A Postmodern Medea

Translations and Staging of the Main Texts of the Theban Cycle in Bulgaria

A Contemporary Trilogy

Notes.

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118832684

111883268X

9781118832813

1118832817

OCLC:

971891469