This paper analyses four Polish renditions of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon (first part of the trilogy Oresteia) – by Zygmunt Węclewski, Jan Kasprowicz, Stefan Srebrny, and Artur Sandauer – and attempts to trace in particular the manner in which the translators approach and portray Clytemnestra, an ambiguous and complicated figure, who exceeds the social frames within which she lives. A comparison of the four translations with the Greek text uncovers the different strategies chosen by the translators which, in turn, point to their reading of the play.

An account of the celebrations on the fiftieth anniversary of the doctorate of Prof. Marian Szarmach held at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, followed by a selection of laudatory speeches and verses. Prof. Szarmach is praised above all as an outstanding Hellenist specializing in the Second Sophistic and a teacher who has had a profound impact on the many Classicists who encountered him.