Približno pred letom sem oklevaje sprejel nalogo, naj iz obstoječih in po potrebi novih prevodov Katulove lirike sestavim izbor za dvojezično latinsko slovensko izdajo. Prava vsebina te naloge se je ...skrivala za na videz nedolžno formulacijo »po potrebi novih«: tisto, kar ni prevedeno ali pa obstaja samo v precej olepšanih Šmitovih prevodih, so povečini sramotilne pesmi z obsceno vsebino. Ob tem naj že takoj omenim, da se mi številne Šmitove prepesnitve zdijo zelo posrečene in nekatere skoraj nedosegljive (npr. c. 47, Acmen Septimius), in tudi pri prevajanju ajshrologijeje včasih znal biti nenavadno neposreden in učinkovit (npr. pri »Egnatiju«, c. 97) - seveda dokler ne gre Katul »predaleč«. Šmitovi prevodi so nastali v času, ko ni bilo mogoče objaviti česarkoli, vseeno pa se zdi, da prevajalcu zvrst ni bila najbolj po duši. »Hoja za Katulom«2 je vendarle predvsem hoja za nežnim in nedolžnim, morda tudi strastno razrvanim, mnogo manj pa za grobim in vulgarnim Katulom.
Interpretacija Katulove pesnitve o Peleju in Tetidi (c. 64) v odnosu do Apolonija Rodoškega in tradicije helenisticnega epilija. Osnova za upodobitev Ariadne po zgledu Medeje je Apolonijev exernplurn ...(Arg. 3,997ss.; 1074ss.; 1096ss.; 4,423ss.), ki ga je Katul sledeč kompozicijskemu vzorcu kratke epike (Moshova Evropa) razširil v digresijo s paralelnim mitom; ironična dvoumnost Apolonijevega mitološkega primera se v skladu z značilno miselno strukturo Katulovih liričnih pesmi (quondarn - nunc) umakne polarnemu nasprogu med srečnim Pelejem in zapuščeno Ariadno, vendar srečna verzija Ariadnine zgodbe in namigi na tragične okoliščine Tetidine svatbe ostajajo prisotni v ozadju in ustvarjajo vtis komplementarne celote.
Odnos med dvema pesnikoma, ki utelešata avgustejsko klasiko, je zavit v skrivnost. Vergilij ni pustil skoraj nobenega pričevanja o svojih sodobnikih; izjema je elegik Komelij Galus, sicer gre ...povečini za poklone političnim in umetniškim zaščitnikom, Mecenatu, Aziniju Polionu in cesarju Avgustu. Razlog za ta molk ni zvrstna določenost njegovega pesniškega triptiha- pascua, rura, duces; tudi to je zgolj posledica nekega drugega dejstva. Vergilij pač ni bil pesnik, ki bi hotel stopiti pred literamo občinstvo z neposrednostjo, kot so jo zmogli Katul in elegiki. (Z "neposrednostjo" ne mislim izpovedi v romantičnem smislu, temveč samo očitni in neposredni pečat avtorjeve osebnosti. Avtorjeva navzočnost je v Vergilijevih Eklogah posredna, vendar ima morda še večjo izpovedno vrednost kot pri lirikih in elegikih.)
France Prešeren's epic poem The Baptism at the Savica (1836) presents the goddess of love, Živa, as a central figure in the Slavic pantheon, the religion of the Ancient Slavs itself being imagined as ...a dualistic system centered around the conflict between Živa as a naturalistic principle of Life and Črti, »the Hating Ones«. There are at least three reasons for believing that Prešeren's Živa is a literary construct esentially based on Virgil's Venus: 1) she is only mentioned in one historical source, 2) she is described as a »Slavic Venus« by the author himself, 3) a crucial scene leading to the conversion of the angry pagan warrior (Črto-mir, “the peace-hater”) is based on the scene of Virgil’s Aeneid (2.566 ff.) in which Venus prevents the angry hero from killing Helen. It is argued that Prešeren constructs the “pagan” antagonism between Love and Strife on the model of the traditional allegory of Venus and Mars, and that the syncretistic tendency of the Christian creed presented at the end of the poem can be explained by a reference to the Platonist allegory of duae Veneres.
Vergil's literary career has been described as an evolution from "Alexandrian" art towards a politically committed "poetics of Empire." In this paper, I will examine closely the traditional role of ...Alexandrian poetics, and particularly of the influence of Callimachus, on Vergil's works, with emphasis on the Georgics.
The article focuses on the impact of globalization and neoliberal policies on higher education. In view of a paradigm shift in the understanding of the social role of general education and knowledge ...in general, universities, in particular those with no direct access to the centers of global capital, are undergoing a twofold change: as research institutions, they are spontaneously being subordinated to short-term profit interests; as educational institutions, they are turning into factories for the production of useful knowledge. The authors show this on the example of the University of Maribor, which in its strategic documents explicitly supports the entrepreneurial type of university, at the same time trying to present the devastating effects of financial pressures as a development opportunity. The ambition for the flexibilization of labor at university puts workers in an increasingly insecure position with the quality of studies dropping rapidly; paradoxically, however, members of the academic community together with students actively and progressively assist in these processes.
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