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“I tried to work hard”: on broad scholarly interests, frequent travels and an idiosyncratic way of teaching Russian

Maciej Salamon Marek Wilczyński Adrian Szopa

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 207-223 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147946

Keywords Maciej Salamon Byzantine studies numismatics Jagiellonian University Classics in Poland

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An interview with professor Maciej Salamon, a historian, medievalist, and Byzantinist, renowned expert in numismatics, about his childhood home and studies in Cracow, academic career at the University of Silesia and Jagiellonian University, as well as study trips.

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Maciej Salamon

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Marek Wilczyński

Adrian Szopa

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Instytut Historii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie

Doctor Jerzy Mańkowski (1935–2022). Ten recollections

Juliusz Domański Katarzyna Golanowska Inga Grześczak Roman Krzywy Ariadna Masłowska-Nowak Agnieszka Mitura Marcin L. Morawski Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa Barbara Opała Mikołaj Szymański

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 3-35 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147932

Keywords Jerzy Mańkowski Classics in Poland Neo-Latin studies

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The late Dr Jerzy Mańkowski, a classical scholar and a researcher in Polish mediaeval and Renaissance literature, is portrayed through ten voices of his colleagues, disciples, as well as his daughter. He will be remembered for his wide knowledge and critical acumen, but first of all for the passion and enthusiasm which he passed on to his disciples and readers of his works. His relatives and friends also recall his love for hiking in the mountainous regions of Poland.

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Juliusz Domański

Katarzyna Golanowska

Inga Grześczak

Roman Krzywy

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Ariadna Masłowska-Nowak

Agnieszka Mitura

Marcin L. Morawski

Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa

Barbara Opała

Mikołaj Szymański

A bibliography of the works of Jerzy Mańkowski

Justyna Mańkowska

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 37-45 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147933

Keywords Jerzy Mańkowski Classics in Poland Neo-Latin studies

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A bibliography of Jerzy Mańkowski, which includes his scholarly writings, translations and edited works, arranged in chronological order.

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Justyna Mańkowska

Plato’s praise of writing in the context of law

Dorota Zygmuntowicz

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 71-88 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147936

Keywords Plato Phaedrus Laws Greek philosophy writing literacy

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The motif of the so-called “critique of writing” in the Phaedrus has received much attention from contemporary commentators of Plato. Less attention has been paid to the explicit praise of writing and the project of making all citizens literate presented in the Laws. Because in the Phaedrus there is talk of writing of every sort (including legal documents), the question arises whether Plato changed his attitude to writing in the Laws. The present discussion places the Platonic reflection on writing and speech in the broader context of the ambivalent attitude of fourth-century BC Athenians to writing and written laws. It is demonstrated, first, that Plato criticizes writing to the same extent to which he praises it; second, that if his criticism includes writing, it also includes verbal teachings and all oral compositions.

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Dorota Zygmuntowicz

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Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, Polska Akademia Nauk

“Foul and untameable sprout…” – Plutarch on envy

Joanna Sowa

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 89-109 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147937

Keywords Plutarch Greek literature ancient philosophy emotions in ancient literature envy hate practical ethics

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Although for many years Plutarch has not been particularly valued for his philosophy, there is a growing interest today in his “practical ethics” and in particular in his writings on human emotions. This paper analyses Plutarch’s views on envy, its causes and effects, as well as the similarities and differences between envy on the one hand and ambition as well as hate on the other. His ideas for “healing” these negative emotions are also presented, ranging from total suppression to replacing the object of envy with another.

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Joanna Sowa

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Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet Łódzki

Cecylia Zofia Gałczyńska (1934-2023)

Joachim Śliwa

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 47-52 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147934

Keywords Cecylia Zofia Gałczyńska Classics in Poland Mediterranean archaeology library and information science history of Szczecin

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An obituary of Cecylia Zofia Gałczyńska, an archaeologist and librarian, who wrote among other things about the collection of ancient art in the Jagiellonian University’s Museum and the history of Szczecin, in particular prominent scholars from this city, Erwin Ackerknecht and Walther Amelung.

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Joachim Śliwa

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Instytut Archeologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Hesiod’s Phix and the origins of the Theban Sphinx between Greece and the Levant

Mieszek Jagiełło

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 53-69 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147935

Keywords Hesiod Theogony Sphinx Phix Thebes Oedipus Ancient Near East Strangler

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The obscure gloss Phix, which is attested in Hesiod’s Theogony, is thought to denote the same Theban monster that bears the name Sphinx in later sources and appears in the Oedipus saga. The present paper argues, however, that the word Phix cannot be convincingly shown to be cognate with the word Sphinx, since the origin of the latter seems to be a Greek word for a strangling monster – as linked with the verb σφίγγω – whereas the former is probably of non-Greek and possibly even non-Indo-European origin. Subsequently, the article proceeds to discuss a number of ancient Near Eastern sources, in particular those featuring infant-killing spirits, in order to demonstrate the emergence of the sphinxes in Greece from the Levant.

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Mieszek Jagiełło

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Instytut Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Ptocholeon, or poor Leo

Małgorzata Borowska

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 141-177 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147940

Keywords Ptocholeon Byzantine poetry

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A Polish translation, with facing Greek text, of two variants of an anonymous Byzantine poem on a certain old man’s astonishing feats of wisdom at the imperial court.

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Małgorzata Borowska

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Wydział „Artes Liberales”, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Nectanebo’s dream

Agnieszka Wojciechowska

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 111-124 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147938

Keywords Nectanebo’s Dream Egyptian literature Greek literature ancient novella bilingualism in antiquity Greek papyri demotic papyri

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A Polish translation, with commentary, of an Egyptian novella about king Nectanebo II and a certain hieroglyph carver, attested on fragments of one Greek and four demotic papyri.

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Agnieszka Wojciechowska

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Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Wrocławski

The deaths of Paris and Oenone: the tenth book of the epics of Quintus of Smyrna

Włodzimierz Appel

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 125-140 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147939

Keywords Quintus of Smyrna Greek epic Greek Imperial poetry Polish translation

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A Polish translation of Book 10 of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica, whose climactic part treats the deaths of Paris and Oenone. This foreshadows the first Polish translation of the whole of Quintus’ poem since the rendering by Jacek Idzi Przybylski published in Cracow in 1815.

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Włodzimierz Appel

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Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika

Chronicle of the princes of Poland

Kazimierz Pawłowski

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 185-188 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147943

Keywords Chronicle of the Princes of Poland mediaeval historiography Polish translation

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A review of the Chronicle of the Princes of Poland, translated and edited by Jerzy Wojtczak‑Szyszkowski. The Chronicle, composed in the fourteenth century by an unknown author, presents the history of the house of Piast and belongs to the most important sources of mediaeval Polish history, in particular the history of Silesia.

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Kazimierz Pawłowski

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Instytut Literaturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

Antiquity in colour and culture wars: the Chroma exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the current American context

Hanna Gołąb

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 197-205 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147945

Keywords Greek sculpture polychromy Metropolitan Museum classical reception in America

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The essay describes the exhibition Chroma held at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (5th June 2022 – 26th March 2023) on the subject of polychromy in Ancient Greek sculpture. The author presents a short description of the history of research into the Greeks painting their sculptures as well as of the political context of this issue, in which the whiteness of the marble statues is intertwined with the idea of a white Western European civilization. Another important context is that of the American political landscape, in particular far-right, racist movements, which often appropriate symbols connected with what they see as “white” Greek civilization.

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Hanna Gołąb

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Department of Classics, Columbia University

Picking holes in Clouds

Olga Śmiechowicz

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 189-196 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147944

Keywords Aristophanes Clouds Greek comedy Polish translation

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A response to the review of a new Polish translation of Aristophanes’ Clouds, which appeared in the previous issue of “Meander”.

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Olga Śmiechowicz

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Wydział Polonistyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Adam Mickiewicz: four poems

Jerzy Danielewicz

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 225-229 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147947

Keywords Adam Mickiewicz Lausanne Cycle Polish poetry translation into Latin translation into Greek

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A translation into Greek and Latin of four poems by Adam Mickiewicz, three from his Lausanne Cycle, composed in 1839–1840, and one slightly earlier (“Gęby za lud krzyczące…”).

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Jerzy Danielewicz

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Instytut Filologii Klasycznej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Cicero’s letter to Nigidius Figulus (ad fam. Iv 13)

Katarzyna Różycka-Tomaszuk

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 181-184 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147942

Keywords Cicero Nigidius Figulus Roman literature Polish translation

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A Polish translation of Cicero’s letter to Nigidius Figulus (Ad Fam. IV 13).

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Katarzyna Różycka-Tomaszuk

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Wydział „Artes Liberales”, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Catullus 70 (nulli se dicit mulier…)

Wiktoria Krawczyk

Meander | Vol. 78 (2023) | 179-180 | DOI: 10.24425/meander.2023.147941

Keywords Catullus Roman poetry Polish translation

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A translation into Polish of Catullus’ poem 70.

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Wiktoria Krawczyk

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Wydział Polonistyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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