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Homer a Eucharystia

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Kozłowski J. M.

Vox Patrum

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2012

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vol. 57

351-357

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An excerpt from the fifth book of the Iliad, in which Homer explains why gods are immortal, sheds light upon the famous passage in Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Ephesians that defines the Eucharistic bread as ‘the medicine of immortality’. By implying that consumption of bread and wine is the cause of human mortality, Homer enables us to notice the revolutionary character of Eucharistic meal as presented by Ignatius: in the Eucharist the Christian dynamic of approaching eternal life not through ecstatic denial of human nature, but rather through its affirmation, finds its fullest expression.

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Początkowe stadia życia ludzkiego według Homera

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Gilski M.

Polonia Sacra

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2013

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vol. 17

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issue 1

EN

The article tried to find a response to the question how Homer identified the first stages of human life. The analysis helped to make the following conclusions:Many Greek terms used to describe human life (αἰών, βίος, ζωή, ϑυμός, μένος, ψυχή) show awareness of ancient Greeks for the rich phenomenon of human life and the difficulties in describing it precisely;Homer’s works testify to the rising of the terminology connected with human life. Among them we can find the terms referring to the fact of conception (γείνομαι, κυέω, τίκτω, ὑποκύομαι) and birth (γείνομαι, ἐξάγω πρὸ φόως, τίκτω). Homer understands the notion of “embryo” in a quite different way comparing it to the later literature. He refers this term not to a child in the mother’s womb, but to a child already born.According to Homer’s opinion childbirth does not constitute any significant turning point in human life.The new life is a result of God’s cooperation with parents.

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Sędziwi ojcowie – Laertes i Priam w epopejach Homera

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Stępniewska A.

Vox Patrum

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2011

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vol. 56

61-72

EN

Subject of the article are experience and sufferings two fathers – Laertes, King of Ithaca and Priam, King of Troy. They both had that experience in its old age, but in different dimension. Son of the first of fathers – Odys has disappeared without tidings, but he came back to Ithaca after twenty years of wandering, to the great joy of longing father. The son of the second of fathers – Hector was killed in a duel with Achilles. The aged Priam in difficult conversation with his son’s killer is reminding Achilles the suffering of his aged father Peleus, who is living in loneliness, to break heart of Achilles. Due to well-aimed arguments, particularly adduction for the feckless old age of the father, aged Priam reaches intentional point – gets corpse of his son back.

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The Sacrificial Ritual in Homer

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Bednarek B.

Classica Cracoviensia

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2013

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issue 16

5-17

EN

The paper discusses the model of interpretation of the Greek sacrificial ritual and proposes some changes and adjustment in the currently accepted paradigm. The main suggestion presented here is that the ritual slaughter of animals, as described in the Homeric poems, can be treated by protagonists as the practice of great practical impact (it provides the heroes with food) rather than that of a symbolic value.

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Non-Hellenic Peoples in the Epic Poems of Homer

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Lehrer N.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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2014

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vol. 5

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issue 2

159-167

EN

Homer’s epic poems represent their contemporary world. These epics give detailed descriptions about the peoples and cultures living in the Mediterranean area. Several ethnic groups appear in the epics, whose home lay far away from the Greek homeland, in the Balkans. The Odyssey may be regarded as the most valuable source of the two epics from a geographical point of view. For instance, this is the first written source of the Kimmers, even if there are only a few verses about them. During his journeys, Ulysses was able to reach several territories, which were less well known in the age of Homer. This is the reason why we have only a less detailed picture of these peoples, and why our knowledge of these cultures, ethnic groups and civilizations is so fragmentary. In my paper I try to figure out how the author described these peoples, what kind of attributes he employed in their description, and how we could interpret this information. Applying all these we could be able to examine the Greek attitude toward foreigners in the 8th century B.C.

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Odysseus’ most memorable exploit

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West S.

Classica Cracoviensia

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2013

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issue 16

189-206

EN

The paper discusses the meaning and development of Odysseus’ meeting with the Cyclops as described in the Odyssey, taking into account its possible origins and parallels in folklore.

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Mit obrazem współczesności, czy współczesność odbiciem mitu? Homer, Iliada Alessandro Baricco

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Krauze-Kołodziej A.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 3: Filologia klasyczna

45-66

PL

Celem artykułu jest analiza i interpretacja autorskiej wersji Iliady Homera napisanej w 2004 roku przez współczesnego włoskiego pisarza Alessandro Baricco. Oparł się on na tłumaczeniu Iliady autorstwa Marii Grazii Ciani. Reinterpretacja starożytnego poematu Homerowego stanowi, jak się wydaje, interesujący przykład próby uwspółcześnienia starożytnego dzieła literackiego. W artykule autorka analizuje oraz interpretuje treść i konstrukcję współczesnej wersji poematu, porównując ją z jej pierwowzorem oraz tłumaczeniem na język włoski Iliady, na którym bazował Baricco.

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The aim of the article is to analyze and interpret the new version of the Iliad written in 2004 by the contemporary Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. He based his version of the text on the Italian translation of Iliad by Maria Grazia Ciani. The reinterpretation and reconstruction of the ancient poem of Homer by Alessandro Baricco seems to be an interesting example of an attempt to modernize an ancient literary work. In the article, the author analyzes and interprets the content and the structure of the contemporary version of the poem, comparing it to the original text of the Iliad and its Italian translation on which Baricco was basing.

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Pajdeutyczny wymiar postaci mitologicznych w literaturze greckiej i komentarzach scholiastów

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Czerwińska J., Uniwersytet Łódzki W. F.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica

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2015

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vol. 08

PL

W artykule zostaje podjęty problemem typu bohatera i antybohatera wykreowanego w literaturze przez antyczną kulturę grecką. Z uwagi na to, że problem ten w aspekcie diachronicznym jest bardzo szeroki, dlatego, chcąc dokonać jego pogłębionej analizy, konieczne jest zawężenie pola badawczego. Artykuł podejmuje zatem omawianą kwestię w eposie Homera, przy czym zostają w nim zestawione stworzone przez epika paradygmaty postaw bohaterów mitologicznych z postaciami wykreowanymi przez Eurypidesa. O wyborze tym zadecydował fakt, że utwory obu poetów możemy uznać za reprezentatywne dla ukazania świata wartości epok, w których tworzyli, oraz to, że u wymienionych poetów te same postacie mitologiczne podlegają niekiedy zupełnie odmiennej waloryzacji.

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The paper discusses the types of heroes and anti-heroes established in literature by ancient Greek culture. In order to provide a full treatment of the subject, which in its diachronic aspect is very broad, the field of research has been limited. As a result, the present paper analyzes examples of mythological figures in the epic poems of Homer in juxtaposition with those found in Euripidean drama. The two authors have been chosen in view of the fact that their works are model representations of the values of their times as well as of the noticeable differences between them in evaluating the same mythological figures.

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Metafora i piękno w Iliadzie Homera

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Grzybowski W.

Nurt SVD

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2017

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issue 1

309-324

PL

Iliada Homera jest wielowarstwową opowieścią o heroicznej przeszłości achajskiej arystokracji. Choć skażeni winą, ate, choć zaangażowani w niesprawiedliwą, łupieżczą wojnę, bohaterowie achajskiej historii dosięgają wzoru cnoty, arete – męstwa połączonego z mądrością. Wina zarówno Achajów – Achillesa i Agamemnona, jak i Trojan – Parysa i Hektora, przesłania oraz odbiera im część chwały, jaka winna wypływać z mądrego męstwa połączonego z szacunkiem dla zwyciężonych. Wina zrodzona z pokusy, której nie mogą się oprzeć jako śmiertelni, paradoksalnie obarcza ich odpowiedzialnością za zło, nad którym nie panują. Jednak spadająca na nich kara staje się ekspiacją i aktem odzyskania heroicznej cnoty. Znaczenia te zawarte są w przenośniach zastosowanych przez Homera, a także w złożonej strukturze Iliady. Zarówno homeryckie metafory, jak i przedstawianie postaci oraz narracja budują kompozycję znaczeń i harmonii, która w sposób naturalny poddaje się wytłumaczeniu za pomocą scholastycznych pojęć proportio, integritas i claritas, trzech podstawowych cech piękna. Tak pojęta kompozycja Iliady stanowi ważny krok w tworzeniu antycznej tradycji wyznaczonej przez kalokagathię, poszukiwanie prawdziwego piękna i dobra.

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The Illiad, traditionally attributed to Homer, is a multilayered story about the heroic past of the Achaean aristocracy. Though engaged in an unjust war and plunder, thus contaminated by guilt, ate, the Achaeans strive for the very model of virtue, arete – courage and wisdom paired with respect shown towards the defeted enemy. The glory of arete is compromised on both sides of the conflict, the Acheans (Achilles and Agamemnon) and the Trojans (Paris and Hector). Their guilt, born of temptation which they – as mortals – cannot resist, paradoxically makes them responsible for the evil they have no power to contain. Their punishment thus becomes their atonement for their wrongdoing and their chance to redeem their discredited heroism and virtue. All these ideas are conveyed by the metaphors employed by Homer throughout his complex masterpiece. His way of presenting the protagonists and narrating their stories creates a brilliant composition of meanings and harmony, which the European scholastics many centuries later described as the constituent elements of beauty: proportio, integritas and claritas. The Illiad marks an enormously important stage in the development of the ancient search of the true goodness and beauty, kalokagathia (Ancient Greek: nobility, goodness, from kalos: beautiful, kai: and, agathos: good).

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Wojna czy pokój? Nowy świat wartości w dziełach Homera

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Ceglarska A.

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio G (Ius)

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2019

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vol. 66

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issue 2

EN

The oldest poem of the European culture is the work dedicated to the war – Iliad. It is frequently believed that this war is the almost separate, most important heroine of the epic. This rather common opinion, that Homer would praise war and put military struggles ahead of times of peace, I would like to undermine in this work. Both in Iliad and Odyssey, there is a clear critique not only of the war itself but also more generally – of violence as a way of solving conflicts, while the times of peace and peaceful life are praised. In this article, I draw attention to various motifs presented in both epics, confirming the above thesis: statements of the heroes, presented symbolism, behavior of the gods, and finally the character of Achilles, who, while being the ideal warrior, remains also the main exponent of all doubts concerning the warfare. These doubts, as well as his wishes for another life most fully reflect Homer’s ambivalent attitude to war and provoke reflection on whether the poet actually was the praising her glory, or whether he tried to express the belief in the rightness of a different way of life and conflict resolution.

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Najstarszym poematem w kręgu kultury europejskiej jest utwór poświęcony wojnie – Iliada. Panuje przekonanie, iż ta wojna jest wręcz osobną, najważniejszą bohaterką eposu. Tę dość powszechną opinię, jakoby Homer miał sławić wojnę i przedkładać zmagania wojskowe nad czasy pokoju, pragnę podważyć w niniejszej pracy. Zarówno bowiem w Iliadzie, jak i Odysei pojawia się wyraźna krytyka nie tylko samej wojny, ale i ogólniej – przemocy mającej stanowić sposób rozwiązywania konfliktów, chwalone są zaś czasy pokoju i spokojne życie. W artykule zwracam uwagę na rozmaite motywy przedstawione w obu eposach potwierdzające powyższą tezę (wypowiedzi bohaterów, przedstawioną symbolikę, zachowanie bogów), jak również na postać Achillesa, który będąc ideałem wojownika, pozostaje zarazem głównym wyrazicielem wszelkich wątpliwości dotyczących słuszności działań wojennych. Wyrażane przezeń wątpliwości oraz marzenia o innym życiu najpełniej oddają ambiwalentny stosunek Homera do wojny i prowokują do zastanowienia się nad tym, czy poeta rzeczywiście był piewcą jej chwały czy też starał się wyrazić przekonanie o słuszności innego sposobu życia i rozwiązywania konfliktów.

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Odyseusz – bohater o wielu twarzach (na podstawie Odysei Homera i Powrotu Odysa Stanisława Wyspiańskiego)

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Wilczak W.

Colloquia Litteraria

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2022

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vol. 33

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issue 2

127-153

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The Return of Odysseus is a multifaceted drama, which speaks about the fate ofman, about the impossibility of escaping from destiny. It is an interpretation ofthe Odyssey according to Wyspianski. Completely different, stripped of hypocrisy,true, showing a man, not a hero. It is also the most beautiful example of how muchthe playwright based his work on the legacy of antiquity, how much Greek culturemattered to him. It shows an incredible admiration and desire to understand antiquity, but also a desire to find in it himself, his own views, philosophy, spiritualpath. Wyspianski proves that one’s own interpretations can lead to the discovery ofnew aspects of already known works. Every difference shown in this article proveshow strong a link the two works share

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Stanowienie prawa na zgromadzeniach ludowych w Rzymie republikańskim

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Zabłocki J.

Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne

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2016

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vol. 14

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issue 2

23-30

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The Roman People’s Assemblies differed depending on the fact whether all the citizens or only the plebeian gathered at them. Concilia plebis could vote plebisscita, which were at the beginning not binding for everyone. Finally, the leges and plebisscita became equal on the grounds of the lex Hortensia. The earlier laws had also dealt with this matter: the lex Valeria Horatia gave binding power to the plebiscites voted during the secession on the Mons Sacer, and the lex Publilia Philonis – to the plebiscites accepted by the Senate. The decisions of the assemblies which were not of the general character were called privilegia. In the case of such legal acts as adrogatio, testamentum calatis comitiis or detestatio sacrorum there was no rogatio and accordingly no lex was voted.

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Latin Poetic Translations of the Batrachomyomachia: A Historical Overview

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VANSPAUWEN A.

Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina

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2017

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vol. 53

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issue 1-2

219-237

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The Batrachomyomachia (“the Battle of Frogs and Mice”) is a parody on the Homeric epics. The poem, attributed to Homer, was very popular during the renaissance. This study focusses on the Latin poetic translations of the Batrachomyomachia. The overview given here is the first systematic study of Latin poetic translations of the Batrachomyomachia. It provides an extensive overview of the translations and a discussion of several characteristics of these translations as a whole.

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Odwieczny spór filozofii z poezją w traktacie Heraklita Alegorety

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Domaradzki M.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2011

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vol. 21

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issue 1

5-20

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The paper investigates the complex interrelationship between philosophy and poetry as it was presented by Heraclitus the Allegorist in the famous ‘Quaestiones Homericae’. It is shown here that the apology of Homer which emerges from the treaty builds on two fundamental assumptions. First of all, the Allegorist aims to prove that Homer’s poems ought to be read as intentionally composed allegories that actually prefigure all subsequent philosophical and scientific views. Secondly, Heraclitus argues also that Homer had to have recourse to allegory, since it is the only appropriate mode of expressing certain ideas. Consequently, Homer transpires to be not only the greatest poet if ancient Greece, but also its greatest philosopher.

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Za głosem Penelopy

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Bibik B.

Collectanea Philologica

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2016

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issue 19

91-95

EN

Following the voice of Penelope is the review of a play based on one of the Homer’s greatest epic poem – Odyssey, staged by Ondrej Spišák in the Warsaw puppet theatre „Teatr Lalka”. This artistically beautiful, full of magic and awarded staging, first performed in 1999, still finds its audience. It is definitely worth spending an hour in the theatre to see this enchanting ancient world created on the Warsaw stage and directed by Homer himself.

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Built Around a Tree: Odysseus’s Thalamos and Le Corbusier’s Pavillon de L’Esprit Nouveau

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Świtek G.

Ikonotheka

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2015

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vol. 25

87-110

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The paper presents some comments on Homer’s ekphrasis of Odysseus’s thalamos, as presented in Book 23 of the Odyssey, and Le Corbusier’s Pavillon de L’Esprit Nouveau which was built for the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes and held in Paris. Both works imply a specifi c architectural situation of designing a domestic space around a growing tree. The architectural nature of Odysseus’s thalamos (his and Penelope’s nuptial bed and the bedchamber built around an olive tree in the palace of Ithaca) is revealed, for example, in the interpretation of the daidalon, i.e. the epithet that Homer uses in his ekphrasis which is associated with the name of Daedalus, the fi rst mythical architect. Le Corbusier’s pavilion, which included a tree in its garden terrace, is seen not only as a standardised unit of immeubles-villas, but also as a “paradigmatic” situation of designing a dwelling or a breathing space around a tree.

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The Difference in Use between the Active and Middle Forms of φημι in Speech Conclusions in Homer

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De Decker F.

Listy filologické (Folia philologica)

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2017

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vol. 140

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issue 1-2

7-37

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This article analyses the use of the active and middle diathesis in the Homeric speech conclusions of the type “so (s)he/they spoke” with the simplex verb φημι. It starts by listing the instances and discusses the metrical aspects of the different formulae. The article then proceeds to the previous suggestions that have been made to explain the co-occurrence of active and middle forms. The first explanation was that the middle forms were the result of a so-called Diathesenwechsel by which a middle past tense form could be used besides an active present form. The second one stated that the forms were used because of metrical necessities. The article shows that both explanations cannot be sustained, because many middle forms have a metrically equivalent counterpart with an active form and vice versa, and argues that the distinction between active and middle can be explained by the fact that the middle is used to stress the involvement of the subject, whereas the active is not. This explains why the middle is preferred when the subject is mentioned and is never used with undefined subjects.

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Poza strukturą. Metonimia i tradycyjne obrazy w eposach Homera

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Soliński J.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2020

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vol. 10

223-235

EN

The article discusses the question of traditional images in Greek epic poetry, which are based on metonymy, coexisting with themes and type-scenes and stabilising the epic song. Firstly, I present a sketch of oral theory, originally presented by M. Parry and A. Lord. Secondly, I deal with the question of the type-scenes in Homeric epics and Russian oral epic songs—the middle element of A. Lord’s oral song structure. After that, I move on to cognitive theory and its application to Homeric epics, especially in the matter of cognitive scripts as a basis for the construction of type-scenes. Furthermore, I connect cognitive theory with M. Nagler’s Gestalt, A. N. Sabynin’s DRK-structures and J.M. Foley’s traditional referentiality, which are based on a metonymy. On that basis, I present some examples of traditional images of “house” in the Odyssey, which consist of recurrent elements, such as “megaron,” “bedroom,” “wife,” “children,” etc. The singer evokes the traditional image of the “house” using metonymy. The analysis of examples reveals that these images, regardless of the exact words used by the singer, are stable—just as the type-scenes built on M. Clark’s basic scaffolding.

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«БЛАГОРОДНЫЙ МУЖ» ГОМЕРА И ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ПОЛИСНОЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОСТИ В АРХАИЧЕСКОЙ ГРЕЦИИ.

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ЛЬВОВ А.

Res Gestae. Czasopismo Historyczne

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2015

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vol. 1

27-45

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W artykule podjęto kwestię ideału obywatela w Grecji okresu archaicznego w kontekście formowania państwowości rozumianej w kategorii polis. Autor dokonał analizy poglądów Homera w tej kwestii. Odwoływał się także do opinii Arystotelesa, Platona, Pauzaniasza czy Ksenofonta. Szczególnie dużo miejsca poświęcił wpływom arystokracji okresu archaicznego na rozwój ustroju greckiej polis. Wedle dominujących wówczas opinii obywatel był postrzegany jako wyższa forma człowieka, być może najbliższa ideału. Formowanie owego ideału dokonywało się wraz z rozwojem polis i tego, co zwykliśmy określać mianem „państwowości”.

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Czym była, a czym stała się w renesansie Batrachomyomachia

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Zbądzki J.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2019

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vol. 29

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issue 1

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Zbądzki Jakub, Czym była, a czym stała się w renesansie Batrachomyomachia (What the Batrachomyomachia was, and what it became in the Renaissance).The paper presents the Batrachomyomachia as an example of hellenistic poetry and discusses its reception in the Renaissance, when it became very popular, but all its complexity was lost.

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Homer a Eucharystia

Początkowe stadia życia ludzkiego według Homera

Sędziwi ojcowie – Laertes i Priam w epopejach Homera

The Sacrificial Ritual in Homer

Non-Hellenic Peoples in the Epic Poems of Homer

Odysseus’ most memorable exploit

Mit obrazem współczesności, czy współczesność odbiciem mitu? Homer, Iliada Alessandro Baricco

Pajdeutyczny wymiar postaci mitologicznych w literaturze greckiej i komentarzach scholiastów

Metafora i piękno w Iliadzie Homera

Wojna czy pokój? Nowy świat wartości w dziełach Homera

Odyseusz – bohater o wielu twarzach (na podstawie Odysei Homera i Powrotu Odysa Stanisława Wyspiańskiego)

Stanowienie prawa na zgromadzeniach ludowych w Rzymie republikańskim

Latin Poetic Translations of the Batrachomyomachia: A Historical Overview

Odwieczny spór filozofii z poezją w traktacie Heraklita Alegorety

Za głosem Penelopy

Built Around a Tree: Odysseus’s Thalamos and Le Corbusier’s Pavillon de L’Esprit Nouveau

The Difference in Use between the Active and Middle Forms of φημι in Speech Conclusions in Homer

Poza strukturą. Metonimia i tradycyjne obrazy w eposach Homera

«БЛАГОРОДНЫЙ МУЖ» ГОМЕРА И ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ПОЛИСНОЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОСТИ В АРХАИЧЕСКОЙ ГРЕЦИИ.

Czym była, a czym stała się w renesansie Batrachomyomachia