A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe: (Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception)

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English–language collection of research and scholarship on Greco–Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up–and–coming scholars with vast subject–matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco–Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco–Roman antiquity

Table of 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 Jovanovic ́ 1 Classical Reception in Croatia: An Introduction 15 Neven Jovanovic ́ 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 Marinčič 7 Collecting Roman Inscriptions Beyond the Alps: Augustinus Tyfernus 74 Marjeta Šašel Kos 8 Sta. Maria sopra Siwa: Inventing a Slavic Venus 88 Marko Marincǐ č 9 Images from Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical Interpretations of Ancient Drama 99 Andreja N. Inkret Part III Czech Republic 113 Jan Ba?ant 10 Classical Reception in the Czech Republic: An Introduction 115 Jan Ba?ant 11 Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature between the National Revival and the Avant‐Garde 121 Daniela Čadkova 12 The Classical Tradition and Nationalism: The Art and Architecture of Prague, 1860–1900 133 Jan Ba?ant 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 Francois 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 Part V Hungary 223 Farkas Gabor Kiss 19 Classical Reception in Hungary: An Introduction 225 Farkas Gabor Kiss 20 Classical Reception in Sixteenth‐Century Hungarian Drama 233 Agnes Juhasz‐Ormsby 21 Truditur dies die: Reading Horace as a Political Attitude in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Hungary 245 Abel Tamas 22 The Shepherdess and the Myrmillo: The Sculptor Istvan Ferenczy and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Hungary 260 Nora Veszpremi 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: Coşbuc 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 Zečević 29 Innovative Impact of the Classical Tradition on Early Modern Serbian Literature 347 Nenad Ristovic ́ 30 Classical Heritage in Serbian Lyric Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Jovan Dučić, Miloš Crnjanski, and Ivan V. Lalić 360 Ana Petković 31 The Ancient Sources of Njegoš’s Poetics 373 Darko Todorovic ́ 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 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

About the Author :
Zara Martirosova Torlone is Professor in the Department of Classics at Miami University, USA. She is the author of Russia and the Classics (2009) and Vergil in Russia (2015), editor of Classical Reception in Eastern Europe (a special issue of Classical Receptions Journal), and co‑editor of Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (with Stephen Norris, 2008). She has written numerous articles concerning classical literature and its reception, especially in Russian culture. Dana LaCourse Munteanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, Newark, USA. 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). She has written several articles on Greek philosophy, tragedy and the reception. Dorota Dutsch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the author of Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices (2008), and co‐editor of Women in the Drama of the Roman Republic (with David Konstan and Sharon James, 2015), Ancient Obscenities (with Ann Suter, 2015),and The Fall of the City in the Mediterranean (with Ann Suter and Mary Bachvarova, 2016).