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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 cultureOffers 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

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Central and Eastern Europe's rich and longstanding history of classical receptions is largely unknown beyond its borders. A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive Englishlanguage study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of twelve countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. This handbook is divided into chapters by country. Case studies delve into the pre-national and national receptions of classical literature and material culture Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. This volume features contributions from scholars based both within and beyond the region, providing an invaluable range of perspectives which help to extend reception studies into histories, literatures, and cultures previously inaccessible to English speakers. This handbook unveils ways in which specific national cultures have engaged with classical Greece and Rome and helps readers understand, in turn, how classical antiquity contributed to the idea of nation building in the region.

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Central and Eastern Europe's rich and longstanding history of classical receptions is largely unknown beyond its borders. A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive Englishlanguage study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of twelve countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. This handbook is divided into chapters by country. Case studies delve into the pre-national and national receptions of classical literature and material culture Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. This volume features contributions from scholars based both within and beyond the region, providing an invaluable range of perspectives which help to extend reception studies into histories, literatures, and cultures previously inaccessible to English speakers. This handbook unveils ways in which specific national cultures have engaged with classical Greece and Rome and helps readers understand, in turn, how classical antiquity contributed to the idea of nation building in the region.

Author Biography

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 coeditor 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).

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 NeoLatin Literature and Its Uses 35
Neven Jovanovic 4 The First Dalmatian Humanists and the Classics: A Manuscript Perspective 46
Luka Špoljaric 5 The Swan Song of the Latin Homer 57
Petra Šoštaric Part II Slovenia 67
Marko Marincic 6 Classical Reception in Slovenia: An Introduction 69
Marko Marincic 7 Collecting Roman Inscriptions Beyond the Alps: Augustinus Tyfernus 74
Marjeta Šašel Kos 8 Sta. Maria sopra Siwa: Inventing a Slavic Venus 88
Marko Marinci c 9 Images from Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical Interpretations of Ancient Drama 99
Andreja N. Inkret Part III Czech Republic 113
Jan Baant 10 Classical Reception in the Czech Republic: An Introduction 115
Jan Baant 11 Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature between the National Revival and the AvantGarde 121
Daniela Cadkova 12 The Classical Tradition and Nationalism: The Art and Architecture of Prague, 1860–1900 133
Jan Baant 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 Grzesk owiakKrwawicz 17 Two Essays on Classical Reception in Poland 190
Jerzy Axer 18 Parallels between Greece and Poland in Juliusz Sowacki'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 SixteenthCentury Hungarian Drama 233
Agnes JuhaszOrmsby 21 Truditur dies die: Reading Horace as a Political Attitude in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury 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: Cosbuc 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 BosniaHerzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro 327 Nada Zecevic 27 Classical Reception in BosniaHerzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro: An Introduction 329
Nada Zece vic and Nenad Ristovic 28 Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography of Bosnia (Eighteenth Century) 336
Nada Zecevic 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 Ducic, Miloš Crnjanski, and Ivan V. Lalic 360
Ana Petkovic 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 GrecoRoman 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

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Central and Eastern Europe s rich and longstanding history of classical receptions is largely unknown beyond its borders. 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 twelve countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. This handbook is divided into chapters by country. Case studies delve into the pre-national and national receptions of classical literature and material culture Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. This volume features contributions from scholars based both within and beyond the region, providing an invaluable range of perspectives which help to extend reception studies into histories, literatures, and cultures previously inaccessible to English speakers. This handbook unveils ways in which specific national cultures have engaged with classical Greece and Rome and helps readers understand, in turn, how classical antiquity contributed to the idea of nation building in the region.

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