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ROLA LISTÓW W K SZTAŁTOWANIU WIZERUNKU „APOSTOŁA WSCHODU” – ELEMENTY AUTOBIOGRAFICZNE W ŁACIŃSKIEJ KORESPONDENCJI FRANCISZK A KSAWEREGO
No full textThis paper presents the letters of Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary, called “an Apostle of the Far East”, asa kind of episolographical autobiography. In a short time after publication of his letters, the missionary workof Francis Xavier, which he himself describes in detail, became a model for all later activities of the Societyof Jesus in Asia and all New World
JAN HOROWSKI, FILOLOG KLASYCZNY – UCZONY I PEDAGOG. WSPOMNIENIE UCZNIA W CZTERDZ IESTĄ ROCZNICĘ ŚMIERCI
Get PDFThe author’s scope is to briefly present the life and the area of scientific interest of Jan Horowski, an outstandingscholar, especially in the Greek literature and school didactics of Latin
Opera – Oratorio Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky and the Greek Original (SPhP XI, 1996)
Get PDFThis article is a voice in the discussion on the methods of stage implementation of Greek tragedy. The discussed staging of “Oedipus Rex” opera by Stravinsky (Tokyo ‚94) is dominated by non-verbal means of expression (music, set design, costume, stage movement), thus setting a supporting role for the libretto. Nevertheless, the performance arouses similar feelings and emotions as Sophocles’ drama.This article is a voice in the discussion on the methods of stage implementation of Greek tragedy. The discussed staging of “Oedipus Rex” opera by Stravinsky (Tokyo ‚94) is dominated by non-verbal means of expression (music, set design, costume, stage movement), thus setting a supporting role for the libretto. Nevertheless, the performance arouses similar feelings and emotions as Sophocles’ drama
Staging in the Medieval Theatre and Text
Get PDFThe present paper deals with different forms of staging, which are found in dramatic medieval forms and in narrative texts. As well in the theatre as in the text instructions for staging help to understand a sender’s message
Temperantia, Golden Mean of Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic
Get PDFSeneca’s philosophical writings concern a virtue, among others also the virtues of justice, temperance (or moderation), fortitude and prudence. They are four virtues from the time of St. Ambrose called cardinal. Seneca gives this definition of the virtue temperantia: “cupiditates refrenare” – to confine one’s desires. So the temperance is practising self-control, abstention and moderation. Seneca discuses it very often in a wider context of the different virtues, with which it’s tightly connected according to a stoical idea of the inseparability of the virtues. He claims that we have to learn virtue. Seneca reminds that life is not easy and only the indications of the philosophy concerning virtue preserve from the unjust fortune
Linguistic Didacticism in the Noctes Atticae by Aulus Gellius
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to examine the didactic value of the Attic Nights from the linguistic point of view, and precisely, from the point of view of Gellius’ teachings on the meanings of words. In this context it has been stated that the author makes his readers aware of new meanings gained by certain words when used in contemporary colloquial idiom, describes and interprets the mechanism which had generated those meanings, evaluates the results of the process of semantic change, and, finally, comments on the way some grammarians assess the usage of certain words in ancient literary texts. In effect, the paper concentrates on the passages where A. Gellius, referring to ancient (archaic and classical) literature, describes the semantic differences occurring in various words, depending on their usage, whether in literary or colloquial language, defines the linguistic mechanism giving rise to colloquial variants of different linguistic items, and presents in a critical light the influence of colloquial language on the way in which interpretation is made of particular words as they occur in literary texts
The Authority of Seneca in the Early Christian Argumentation
Get PDFThe paper deals with the authority of Seneca as employed by the eminent early Christian writers in their apologetic as well as polemical works
ARAMEJSKIE SŁOWA I W YRAŻENIA W GRECE NOWEGO TESTAMENTU
Get PDFIn the New Testament, there are over thirty Aramaic words and phrases that are transcribed into Greek characters.Approximately half of them are personal and place names. Another half are individual words and fourshort phrases. This paper catalogues them and proposes Aramaic counterparts
The Elements of Comedy and Parody in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus
Get PDFIn this article the author presents the elements of comedy and parody in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus. The analysis of the passages excerpted from the Dionysiaka shows that the composition of Nonnus’ poem is based on the principle of generic variety
Aspects of Myth in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Get PDFThe article explores the narrative recounted in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes for its aetiological and educational content and message. In particular, it discusses the creation of the lyre, the role of music in paideia and a less explored view of the protagonist’s cattle raid as it relates to war, sports and the education of youth. It then explores the religious context and specific meaning of Hermes slaughtering two of the stolen cows by contrasting his actions with those of Prometheus