The author, a classical philologist and historian of ideas, describes his studies at the University of Warsaw under the direction of two eminent scholars, Kazimierz Kumaniecki and Adam Krokiewicz.
A review of Katarzyna Marciniak's book 'Cicero vortit barbare'. Though the book has many assets, some doubts can be raised against its thesis that Cicero often deliberately changed the sense of Greek texts he was translating in order to achieve his aims, dictated by the interest of the republic.
An edition of an autograph manuscript of Adam Krokiewicz (1890-1977), a professor of the University of Warsaw, famous for his research on ancient philosophy and literature. The manuscript seems the beginning of a much larger work, either lost or never finished. In this fragment the author looks for the rationale of the Greek belief that future events can be foreseen; he also discusses the relationship between fate and the gods' will and shows that Greek deities were often jealous of human happiness. Krokiewicz's text is preceded by a short introduction written by one of his disciples, Juliusz Domanski.
Two chapters from an unfinished novel by Kazimierz Kumaniecki, the eminent Polish classical scholar (1905-1977), edited from the autograph by Anna Zawalska and preceded by Juliusz Domanski's brief remarks on the genesis of the work.
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