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Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

This series offers comprehensive, thought‐provoking surveys of the reception of major classical authors and themes. These Handbooks will consist of approximately 30 newly written essays by leading scholars in the field, and will map the ways in which the ancient world has been viewed and adapted up to the present day. Essays are meant to be engaging, accessible, and scholarly pieces of writing, and are designed for an audience of advanced undergraduates, graduates, and scholars.

Published:
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
John Miller and Carole E. Newlands

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Christine Lee and Neville Morley

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
Betine van Zyl Smit

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch

Forthcoming:
A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology
Vanda Zajko

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

 

Edited by

Zara Martirosova Torlone

Dana LaCourse Munteanu

Dorota Dutsch







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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

Figure 2.2 Arsenale gate, Venice, 1460

Figure 2.3 Diocletian’s palace, reconstruction, in Daniele Farlati, Illyricum sacrum, vol. II, Venetiis, 1753

Figure 7.1 Tombstone of the Durrii family, reused for Nicolaus Merck

Figure 7.2 Tombstone of the Durrii family: sketch from Tyfernus

Figure 9.1 Scene from the first production of Antigone by Dominik Smole

Figure 12.1 Josef Myslbek, Music, Foyer of the National Theater, bronze, 1907–1912

Figure 12.2 Photo of the Esquiline Venus with Myslbek’s measurements

Figure 22.1 István Ferenczy, Wise Pannonia, 1825–1840s

Figure 22.2 István Ferenczy, István Kultsár Memorial, 1829–1832, Inner City Church, Budapest

Figure 22.3 István Ferenczy, Monument to Benedek Virág, 1830–1834, National Pantheon, Szeged

Figure 26.1 The Tropaeum Traiani today

Figure 26.2 F.B. Floresu’s Metope IV, Metope XXIV, Metope XXVIII, Metope LIV

Figure 33.1 Nicopolis ad Istrum

Figure 33.2 Ancient theater of Philippopolis

Figure 33.3 Roman villa Armira

Figure 33.4 Mosaic with Greek inscription in Oescus

Figure 41.1 Mikhail Zemtsov, Facade of the Grotto in the Summer Garden, St. Petersburg

Figure 41.2 Display of ancient votive reliefs and other sculptural fragments from archaeological sites on the northern Black Sea shore

Figure 41.3 Antony Gormley, Standing Still: A Contemporary Intervention in the Classical Collection, 2011–2012

Figure 42.1 Garni Temple, Armenia

Figure 44.1 The Cathedral of Ani, Armenia

Figure 44.2 The Church of the Apostles in Ani, Armenia

Notes on Contributors

Radu Ardevan is Professor of Ancient History at Babeş‐Bolyai University of Cluj‐Napoca. A specialist in ancient history, epigraphy, and numismatics, he was awarded the Vasile Pârvan prize by the Romanian Academy (2000). He has been an active researcher at the National History Museum of Transylvania and the Institute for Archaeology and Art History in Cluj‐Napoca. Besides numerous articles and book chapters, he has published several books: Viaţa municipală în Dacia romană (1998); with Viorica Suciu and Daniela Ciugudean, Tezaurul monetar roman “Apulum VII” (2003), and, with Livio Zerbini, La Dacia romana (2007).

Jerzy Axer is a Professor at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw Theatre Academy. His main fields of research are Ciceronian studies and the reception of classical tradition in European culture. He is the author of hundreds of articles and book chapters and 12 books in several languages, including The Style and the Composition of Cicero’s Speech “Pro Roscio Comoedo” (1980); with Antonio Fontana, Espaňoles y polacos en la Corte de Carlos V  (1994); Łacina jako jȩzyk elit (2004), and “The Classical Tradition in Central‐Eastern Europe” in Companion to the Classical Tradition, edited by Craig Kallendorf (2007). Professor Axer is the founder and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw.

Jan Bažant is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Charles University, Prague, teaches also Classics at the Trnava University in Slovak Republic, and works in the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His scholarly interests range from issues of classical studies to art history, semiotics of art to iconology. He has lectured at various scholarly institutions throughout Europe and participated in major international classical studies publishing and research projects. Recently he published the following books, for which his wife, Nina Bažantová, provided illustrations: Vrtba Garden in Prague (2011), Waldstein Palace in Prague (2011), St Nicholas in Lesser Town (2011), Vila Hvězda v Praze (2013), Pražský Belvedér (2014); and, with Frances Starn, edited The Czech Reader (2010).

Florin Berindeanu received a BA and MA from the University of Bucharest in Comparative Literature and Italian, a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia, Athens, and he was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California at Irvine. He teaches comparative literature/world literature courses from antiquity to the twentieth century, and Italian and semiotics. As a generalist in the field of literature and literary theory, his specialty is medieval studies and mysticism.

Daniela Čadková has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Charles University, Prague, and is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She deals primarily with the Classical reception in Czech literature, theatrical adaptations of Greek and Roman plays, and Czech translation literature on the methodological grounds of Comparative Studies in Literature. She has translated into Czech the anonymous Latin play Octavia.

Dorota Dutsch is the author of Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices (2008), and co‐editor, with David Konstan and Sharon James, of Women in the Drama of the Roman Republic (2015), with Ann Suter, of Ancient Obscenities (2015), and with Ann Suter and Mary Bachvarova, of The Fall of the City in the Mediterranean (2016). Her current book project traces the cultural history of the female philosopher in ancient Greece.

Allison L.C. Emmerson is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Tulane University. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her primary field research is based at Pompeii, but her interests extend through the provinces, particularly to Roman Greece and the Danubian limes.

Carmen Fenechiu is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Babeş‐Bolyai University, Cluj‐Napoca. Her principal research interests lie in Latin syntax, reception of classics in Romanian culture, and Roman religion and epigraphy. Her publications include (with Frieda Edelstein and Dana LaCourse Munteanu) Sintaxă latină I. Sintaxa cazurilor (2012) and Sintaxă latină II. Sintaxa modurilor (2014), (with Dana LaCourse Munteanu), “Reinventing Ovid’s Exile: Ex Ponto … Romanian Style,” Classical Receptions Journal (2013), and La notion de numen dans les textes littéraires et épigraphiques (2008).

Octavian Gabor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Methodist College, Peoria, IL. He works in Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle, and the philosophy of forgiveness. His most recent publication is the essay “Birth‐Givers of Beauty: An Excursion into Finding One’s Given Place within a Constellation,” an introduction to Aspazia Otel Petrescu’s With Christ in Prison (2014).

Violeta Gerjikova is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Sofia. She teaches and is interested in Greek and Roman civilization, history of classics, and classical reception. Publications in the above‐mentioned areas of interest include the articles “Education in the Old Greek Classical Period as a Cultural Issue” (2001), “Translation Reception of Classical Literature in Bulgaria before the WWI” (2002), “Looking (at) Ariadne. Vision and Meaning in Catullus, Ovid and Hofmannsthal” (2007). She is a co‐editor of the series Studia Classica Serdicensia (started in 2010).

Anna Grześkowiak‐Krwawicz is a historian. She is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences and the President of the Polish Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Her main main research interests are in political ideas and discourse in the Polish‐Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th–18th centuries) and the culture of the Enlightenment. Her books include Queen Liberty: The Concept of Freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (2012), and Gulliver in the Land of Giants: A Critical Biography and the Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski (2012); she is the editor, with Dominique Triaire, of Stanislas Auguste, Memoires (2012).

Jasenka Gudelj is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, specializing in the history of the architecture of the Adriatic region. Her book, The European Renaissance of Ancient Pula, explores the critical fortune of antiquities in Pula in the Renaissance art and architecture through the circulation of knowledge, its media and webs.

Ketevan Gurchiani studied classics at the Albert‐Ludwigs University in Germany and at Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia, where she defended her dissertation on ancient Greek religion and theater. Besides ancient theater, Ketevan Gurchiani is interested in studying continuities from the Soviet past. Her other interests include culturally shaped adaptation of narratives with the same core story. Currently she works as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.

Andreja N. Inkret completed her DPhil at Oxford University. She teaches at the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She has published articles on Aristophanic theater and the modern reception of ancient plays, co‐authored a lexicon of Slovenian literary heroes, and worked as a translator and a columnist.

Neven Jovanović is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. His main research interest is Croatian neo‐Latin literature. He is the editor in chief of the digital collection Croatiae auctores Latini, currently comprising over five million words of Latin texts written by authors connected with Croatia from 976 to 1984, and one of the editors of the Colloquia Maruliana, a yearbook of Croatian Humanist and Renaissance literature, published in Split. He is also author of a volume of essays on classical reception, Noga filologa (2006).

Ágnes Juhász‐Ormsby is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the editor of “The Marriage and Coronation of Anne Boleyn [29 May–4 June 1533]” in Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, and Jayne Elisabeth Archer (eds.), John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources (2014), and “The Finest Room in the Colony:” The Library of John Thomas Mullock (2016). Her interests and publications include early modern English and neo‐Latin drama and poetry, intellectual culture, and the classical tradition in early modern England and Central Europe.

Judith E. Kalb is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on interactions between Russian culture and the Greco‐Roman classical tradition. Kalb’s publications include Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890–1930 (2008), on the image of ancient Rome in Russian modernist literature; articles on nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century Russian writers; and, as co‐editor, two volumes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Russian writers series.

Maria Kalinowska is a Professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw. She is the author of several books on Romantic literature and Romantic reception of classical antiquity: Mowa i milczenie – romantyczne antynomie samotnośam [Speech and silence: Romantic antinomies of solitude] (1989); Grecja romantyków. Studia nad obrazem Grecji w literaturze romantycznej [Greece of the Romantics: Studies on the perception of Greece in Romantic literature] (1994), Los, miłość, sacrum. Studia o dramacie romantycznym i jego dwudziestowiecznej recepcji [Fate, love, sacrum: Studies on Romantic drama and its reception in the twentieth century] (2003), and a new edition of the poem Journey to the Holy Land from Naples by Juliusz Słowacki (2011). She heads a philhellenic team preparing the volumes on Philhellenism in Poland (2007, 2012) and on Sparta in Polish Culture (2014, 2015).

Armen Kazaryan, Deputy Director of the State Research Institute for Art Studies in Moscow received his PhD in 1991 and his Habilitation in 2007. He has published widely on medieval Armenian, as well as on Byzantine and Russian architecture. His four‐volume study Church Architecture of the Seventh Century in Transcaucasian Countries (2012–2013, in Russian) was honored with the Europa Nostra Award (2014). At present, he is taking part in a large study of the architecture of Ani.

Farkas Gábor Kiss is head of the research group on Humanism in East Central Europe (hece.elte.hu) at Eötvös University, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Imagination and Imitation in the Epic Poetry of Nicolas Zrínyi (2012, in Hungarian) and Johannes Sambucus (2014); and editor of Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis (2015) and Art of Memory in Late Medieval Central Europe (2016). His interests include late medieval and early modern literary networks in East Central Europe and the history of rhetoric in this period.

Marko Marinčič received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 1999. He has been full professor of Classics at the Department of Classics, University of Ljubljana, since 2009. His main international publications are dedicated to Hellenistic and Roman poetry, ancient prose fiction, and reception of classical literature and mythology in French, Italian, and Slovenian literature. He is active as a translator of Greek, Roman, and French literature and has received a number of awards for literary translation.

Caspar Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. His work focuses on cross‐cultural communication in the northern Black Sea region. His recent monograph Greco‐Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia (2013) explores receptions of classical metalwork from ancient Scythia to Romanov Russia.

Dana LaCourse Munteanu is Associate Professor of Classics at Ohio State University. She is the author of Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy (2012) and the editor of Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity (2011). Her interests include ancient philosophy, drama, and the reception of classics.

Gohar Muradyan, Doctor of Philology (1986), Doctor of Sciences (Philology) (2005), is Senior Researcher and head of the Department of Study and Translation of Old Texts, at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran) in Yerevan, Armenia. She has published critical editions of texts, monographs, and articles on old Armenian translations from Greek, including Physiologus, The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (2005), Grecisms in Ancient Armenian (2012), and David the Invincible’s Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge, Old Armenian Text with the Greek Original, an English Translation, Introduction and Notes (2014).

Ana Petković is Assistant Professor in Classics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her research interests include poetics of genres, Greek and Roman epic and lyric poetry, as well as modern theorethical approaches to ancient literature.

Ioan Piso is Professor Emeritus at Babeş‐Bolyai University of Cluj‐Napoca. An expert in Roman epigraphy, archaeology, and ancient history, he served as the director of the archaeological excavations at Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa (1985–2011) and of several other research programs. Professor Piso is the receipient of numerous prestigious scholarships (“Herder” in Austria, 1968, and a “Humboldt” in Germany, 1991–1992) and awards (“Serviciu credincios,” rank of officer in 2000, and the Vasile Pârvan prize of the Romanian Academy, 2003). He is the author of Inscriptions d’Apulum (Inscriptions de la Dacie Romaine III 5, = Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles‐Lettres, I–II (2001), Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg/Carnuntum, 1. Die Inschriften (2003), and An der Nordgrenze des Römischen Reiches. Ausgewählte Studien (1972–2003) (2005).

Nenad Ristović is Associate Professor at the Department of Classics of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, and researches Christian classicism and classical tradition in Serbia. He has written books Starohrišćanski klasicizam (Ancient Christian classicism, 2005), Hrišćanstvo i antičko naslede (Christianity and the classical heritage, 2010), Priručnik iz retorike Jovana Rajicá (Rhetoric textbook by Jovan Rajić, 2013).

Alena Sarkissian is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. She deals primarily with Greek and Roman theater and drama and also with their modern reception on Czech stages. She cooperates with theaters in their preparation of productions of classical drama (e.g., Sophocles’ Electra in Valmet Theater, Prague, 2005; Oresteia in Municipal Theater, Zlín, 2012). She translated three Byzantine dramas into Czech (in cooperation with the poet Matouš Jaluška) for her recent book on Byzantine drama (At’ Múzy promluví).

Marjeta Šašel Kos is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her main research interests are Greek and Roman literary sources for the western Balkans and southeastern Alpine area (Appian and Illyricum, 2005), and Roman inscriptions from Slovenia.

Yoana Sirakova is an Associate Professor of Latin and Translation Studies in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Sofia. Her publications include numerous articles on translation studies and classical reception in Bulgaria. Her recent publications are a book entitled The Bulgarian Translations of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ (2012) and a monograph The Uses of Antiquity in Bulgarian Poetry: Forms and Figures (2012).

Mirena Slavova is a Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Sofia, Department of Classical Philology. Her main research interests are ancient Greek (phonology, history, and lexicology), Greek and Roman epigraphy, ancient history, ancient culture of the Balkan peninsula, and Thracology. She is the author of Phonology of the Greek Inscriptions in Bulgaria (2004), The Digraphs in Thracian Names (2007), Greek Inscriptions from West Pontic Colonies in Bulgaria: A Lexical and Semantic Study (2013). She is a co‐editor of the series Studia Classica Serdicensia (started in 2010).

Petra Šoštarić teaches in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Zagreb. She is currently finishing her PhD thesis on Latin translations of Homer and participating in a digital humanities project at the University of Zagreb. Her publications include translations from Greek and Latin and several articles on Croatian neo‐Latin literature.

Luka Špoljarić is currently (2015/2016) a Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, having spent the previous two years as a postdoctoral fellow on the Croatica et Tyrolensia project at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. His research explores Croatian humanist networks in their intellectual and sociopolitical contexts.

Grigory Starikovsky earned a PhD in classics at Columbia University in 2004. His interests include Augustan literature, classical reception, and translation theory. Dr. Starikovsky has published Russian translations of Pindar, Vergil, Propertius, and Persius. He teaches Latin at Ramsey High School, NJ, and has taught courses in classics at Montclair State University.

Dorothea Tabakova is Assistant Professor at the University of Sofia, Department of Classical Philology. She teaches ancient Greek and metrics. She has translated six of Euripides’ plays into Bulgarian.

Ábel Tamás is a senior lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature of Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest. He is the author of several articles on Roman poetry and co‐editor of Kulturtechnik Philologie: Zur Theorie des Umgangs mit Texten (2010). His interests include Latin literature and literary theory, materialities of literary communication, and the theory of philology.

Darko Todorović is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philology, Department of Classical Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His research interests and publications focus on historical and theoretical issues pertaining to classical literature, as well as on theoretical problems in translating classical texts.

Zara Martirosova Torlone is a Professor of Classics at Miami University (Ohio). She holds a BA from Moscow State University and a PhD from Columbia University. Her publications include Russia and the Classics: Poetry’s Foreign Muse (2009), Latin Love Poetry (2014, with Denise McCoskey), Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception (2015), and articles on Roman poetry and novel, Russian reception of antiquity, Roman games, and textual criticism.

Nóra Veszprémi is currently a research fellow at the University of Birmingham where she is participating in a three‐year project examining museums in the Austro‐Hungarian Monarchy. A lecturer in art history at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, her work focuses on nineteenth‐century Hungarian and Austrian art, with a special emphasis on the relationship between visual culture and national identity. In 2010 she co‐curated a major exhibition on the subject at the Hungarian National Gallery.

François Zdanowicz is a lecturer in Political Science and Global Studies Lecturer at California Lutheran University. His research interests are in ethnic identities and state formations. He has published several articles on Eastern Europe and the post‐Soviet political scene.

Nada Zečević is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of East Sarajevo. Her interests include late medieval and early modern intellectual history and interpretations of the past, as well as connections between the medieval Byzantine East and Latin West. She is the author of The Tocco of the Greek Realm (2014), and contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010). Since 2014 Zečević has been the consignation editor for the series Central European Medieval Studies, with the Amsterdam University Press.

Acknowledgments

We, the editors, have occasionally referred to this volume as a “love child.” None of us has received any leaves, special funding, or encouragement to finish this project, but we have undertaken it in addition to our mainstream scholarly commitments.

We owe much to former professors in our countries of origin (Poland, Romania, and Russia) for teaching classics in spite of difficult political conditions and for instilling in us the belief that our own cultural tradition offers unique standpoints to the reception of classics in Europe.

All our contributors and chapter editors deserve special thanks for their hard work and for embarking on this difficult project, often dealing with authors who have never been translated into English.

We are grateful to Wiley‐Blackwell for the interest in our volume and particularly to Caroline Richards, our copyeditor, for her careful work on various details and for improving the overall uniformity of the chapters. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Shyamala Venkateswaran for her infinite patience and meticulous handling of details in the production stage for this volume.

Finally, we would like to thank our readers in anticipation for taking time to venture into unknown territory, which––it is our hope––they will continue to explore.

Zara Torlone, Dana Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch