The paper investigates the Fascist exploitation of Horatian poetry by analysing the speech held by Ettore Romagnoli in 1935 on the bimillenary of the poet’s birth. Romagnoli’s oration must sacrifice ...to the demands of the oriented reading of Horace’s work promoted by the regime themes and attitudes characteristic of the poet (the reflections on time and the precariousness of human life, the search for self-sufficiency and aurea mediocritas, the rejection of dogmatism). Instead, the intellectual who moves from a secluded position to full adherence to the new Augustan establishment is exalted, at the cost of historical and literary distortions.
The present paper is the first attempt at a bio-bibliography of Jan Luňák (1847–1935), the peripatetic classicist who roamed the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian empires before founding the ...classical seminar at the University of Ljubljana, in 1919, in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians. Luňák studied in Prague and Leipzig and then moved to St Petersburg to earn his master’s in classical philology from Dorpat (now Tartu) and his doctorate in Greek literature from Kazan. In 1890 he became extraordinarius in Moscow, and in 1892 ordinarius in Odessa, from where he retired in 1907. Known primarily for his Quaestiones Sapphicae, he was forced to launch a second career in 1919, after World War I and then the October Revolution permanently separated him from his family and deprived him of his pension. He served as contractual professor of classical philology in Ljubljana until 1930 when he finally returned to Prague. Based on both published and archival material, the paper provides a historical context for his academic career (which had its roots in the Russian Philological Seminary in Leipzig, where Luňák was recommended by Friedrich Ritschl). It thus attempts to understand the somewhat disparate aspects of his complex scholarly itinerary. Apart from providing his comprehensive bibliography, the study hopes to serve as a stimulus for other primary sources to surface in the future.
Resumen Este trabajo realiza un sumario recorrido histórico por la génesis de un locus criticus virgiliano (Ecl., 4, 62), comenta algunos aspectos de su discusión filológica desde la Antigüedad hasta ...el siglo XXI, y aporta varios elementos novedosos sobre la lectura ofrecida por los codices vetustissimi de la tradición directa.
This article commences with a passage from Giuseppe Billanovich’s preface to Reynolds and Wilson’s Scribe and Scholars (Italian translation). As Billanovich wrote, «classical philology is an ancient ...discipline: mother and master of the other disciplines in our Faculties of Humanities». Starting from this quotation, this article debates the role and the place of classical philology among the other ‘philologies’; it also touches upon the new borders of this discipline, now open to a more global perspective and urged to reconsider its traditional boundaries, both geographical and conceptual. The article shortly summarizes the history of philology as a method, born in Alexandria in the 2nd cent. b.C., developed through antiquity (a couple of papyri and a passage from Galen are mentioned to elucidate this historical phase) up to the 19th cent., when it was best systematized as a science, and now challenged as never before.
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The purpose of this article is to assess the nature and proper context of Grotius's imitation of Tacitus. It starts by establishing how the Tacitean style is characterised in the literary ...criticism around 1600. It then explores the qualities of Grotius's imitation from both the seventeenth-century and the modern perspective. It concludes that Grotius's imitation shows Tacitus's style in a characteristically seventeenth-century mirror, in that it emphasises Tacitean syntax, brevity and choice of words (the stylistic micro-level), as well as political edge and iudicium, but overlooks the narrative and structural qualities of the longer lines of composition in Tacitus's works, that are recognised in modern interpretations.
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