A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

612 Pages·2017·6.933 MB·English

by  Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern
and Central Europe
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch
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A Handbook to Classical Reception
in Eastern and Central Europe
Edited by
Zara Martirosova Torlone
Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Dorota Dutsch
This edition first published 2017
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Names: Torlone, Zara Martirosova, editor. | Munteanu, Dana LaCourse, 1972– editor. |
Dutsch, Dorota, editor.
Title: A handbook to classical reception in eastern and central Europe / edited by Zara Martirosova
Torlone, Dana Lacourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical
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Subjects: LCSH: Classical literature–Appreciation–Europe, Eastern. | Classical literature–
Appreciation–Europe, Central. | Classical literature–Appreciation–Russia (Federation) |
Classical literature–Appreciation–Georgia (Republic) | Classical literature–Appreciation–
Armenia (Republic)
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Contents
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch
Part I Croatia 13
Neven Jovanović
1 Classical Reception in Croatia: An Introduction 15
Neven Jovanović
2 Pula and Split: The Early Modern Tale(s) of Two Ancient Cities 21
Jasenka Gudelj
3 Croatian Neo‐Latin Literature and Its Uses 35
Neven Jovanović
4 The First Dalmatian Humanists and the Classics:
A Manuscript Perspective 46
Luka Špoljarić
5 The Swan Song of the Latin Homer 57
Petra Šoštarić
Part II Slovenia 67
Marko Marinčič
6 Classical Reception in Slovenia: An Introduction 69
Marko Marincǐč
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7 Collecting Roman Inscriptions Beyond the Alps:
Augustinus Tyfernus 74
Marjeta Šašel Kos
8 Sta. Maria sopra Siwa: Inventing a Slavic Venus 88
Marko Marincǐč
9 Images from Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical
Interpretations of Ancient Drama 99
Andreja N. Inkret
Part III Czech Republic 113
Jan Bažant
10 Classical Reception in the Czech Republic: An Introduction 115
Jan Bažant
11 Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature between the National Revival
and the Avant‐Garde 121
Daniela Čadková
12 The Classical Tradition and Nationalism: The Art and Architecture
of Prague, 1860–1900 133
Jan Bažant
13 The Case of the Oresteia: Classical Drama
on the Czech Stage, 1889–2012 146
Alena Sarkissian
Part IV Poland 159
Dorota Dutsch
14 Classical Reception in Poland: An Introduction 161
Dorota Dutsch
15 From Fictitious Letters to Celestial Revolutions:
Copernicus and the Classics 166
Dorota Dutsch and François Zdanowicz
16 Respublica and the Language of Freedom:
The Polish Experiment 179
Anna Grzesḱ owiak‐Krwawicz
17 Two Essays on Classical Reception in Poland 190
Jerzy Axer
18 Parallels between Greece and Poland in Juliusz Słowacki’s Oeuvre 207
Maria Kalinowska
Contents vii
Part V Hungary 223
Farkas Gábor Kiss
19 Classical Reception in Hungary: An Introduction 225
Farkas Gábor Kiss
20 Classical Reception in Sixteenth‐Century Hungarian Drama 233
Ágnes Juhász‐Ormsby
21 Truditur dies die: Reading Horace as a Political Attitude
in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Hungary 245
Ábel Tamás
22 The Shepherdess and the Myrmillo: The Sculptor István Ferenczy
and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Hungary 260
Nóra Veszprémi
Part VI Romania 277
Dana LaCourse Munteanu
23 Classical Reception in Romania: An Introduction 279
Radu Ardevan, Florin Berindeanu, and Ioan Piso
24 Loving Vergil, Hating Rome: Cosb̧ uc as Translator and Poet 287
Carmen Fenechiu and Dana LaCourse Munteanu
25 Noica’s Becoming within Being and Meno’s Paradox 300
Octavian Gabor
26 Reception of the Tropaeum Traiani: Former Paths
and Future Directions 312
Allison L.C. Emmerson
Part VII Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro 327
Nada Zečević
27 Classical Reception in Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro:
An Introduction 329
Nada Zecě vić and Nenad Ristović
28 Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography
of Bosnia (Eighteenth Century) 336
Nada Zecě vić
29 Innovative Impact of the Classical Tradition on 
Early Modern Serbian Literature 347
Nenad Ristović
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30 Classical Heritage in Serbian Lyric Poetry of the Twentieth Century:
Jovan Dučić, Miloš Crnjanski, and Ivan V. Lalic ́ 360
Ana Petković
31 The Ancient Sources of Njegoš’s Poetics 373
Darko Todorović
Part VIII Bulgaria 387
Yoana Sirakova
32 Classical Reception in Bulgaria: An Introduction 389
Yoana Sirakova
33 Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity: A Melting Pot of Thracian, Greek,
and Roman Culture 396
Mirena Slavova
34 In the Labyrinth of Allusions: Ancient Figures in Bulgarian
Prose Fiction 411
Violeta Gerjikova
35 “Bulgarian” Orpheus between the National and the Foreign,
between Antiquity and Postmodernism 423
Yoana Sirakova
36 Staging of Ancient Tragedies in Bulgaria and Their Influence
on the Process of Translation and Creative Reception 437
Dorothea Tabakova
Part IX Russia 449
Judith E. Kalb
37 Classical Reception in Russia: An Introduction 451
Judith E. Kalb
38 “Men in Cases”: The Perception of Classical Schools
in Prerevolutionary Russia 457
Grigory Starikovsky
39 Homer in Russia 469
Judith E. Kalb
40 Vergil in Russia: Milestones of Identity 480
Zara Martirosova Torlone
41 Russian Encounters with Classical Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums,
and National Identity in the Tsarist Empire 493
Caspar Meyer
Contents ix
Part X Armenia and Georgia 507
Zara Martirosova Torlone
42 Armenian Culture and Classical Antiquity 509
Armen Kazaryan and Gohar Muradyan
43 Medieval Greek–Armenian Literary Relations 516
Gohar Muradyan
44 The “Classical” Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani:
The Greco‐Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art 528
Armen Kazaryan
45 Classical Reception in Georgia: An Introduction 541
Ketevan Gurchiani
46 Greek Tragedy on the Georgian Stage in the Twentieth Century 548
Ketevan Gurchiani
Index 560
List of Illustrations
Figure 2.1 Antoine de Ville, View of Pula Bay and the Antiquities, in Portus
and Urbis Polae, Antiquitatum, ut et Thynnorum descriptio curiosa, Venetia, 1633 23
Figure 2.2 Arsenale gate, Venice, 1460 26
Figure 2.3 Diocletian’s palace, reconstruction, in Daniele Farlati, Illyricum
sacrum, vol. II, Venetiis, 1753 32
Figure 7.1 Tombstone of the Durrii family, reused for Nicolaus Merck 83
Figure 7.2 Tombstone of the Durrii family: sketch from Tyfernus 84
Figure 9.1 Scene from the first production of Antigone by Dominik Smole 109
Figure 12.1 Josef Myslbek, Music, Foyer of the National Theater, bronze,
1907–1912 141
Figure 12.2 Photo of the Esquiline Venus with Myslbek’s measurements 142
Figure 22.1 István Ferenczy, Wise Pannonia, 1825–1840s 263
Figure 22.2 István Ferenczy, István Kultsár Memorial, 1829–1832, Inner
City Church, Budapest 268
Figure 22.3 István Ferenczy, Monument to Benedek Virág, 1830–1834,
National Pantheon, Szeged 269
Figure 26.1 The Tropaeum Traiani today 315
Figure 26.2 F.B. Floresu’s Metope IV, Metope XXIV, Metope XXVIII,
Metope LIV 320
Figure 33.1 Nicopolis ad Istrum 401
Figure 33.2 Ancient theater of Philippopolis 402