Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

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).

• List of Illustrations xNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction 1Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota DutschPart I Croatia 13Neven Jovanovic ́1 Classical Reception in Croatia: An Introduction 15Neven Jovanovic ́2 Pula and Split: The Early Modern Tale(s) of Two Ancient Cities 21Jasenka Gudelj3 Croatian Neo‐Latin Literature and Its Uses 35Neven Jovanović4 The First Dalmatian Humanists and the Classics: A Manuscript Perspective 46Luka Špoljarić5 The Swan Song of the Latin Homer 57Petra ŠoštarićPart II Slovenia 67Marko Marinčič6 Classical Reception in Slovenia: An Introduction 69Marko Marinčič7 Collecting Roman Inscriptions Beyond the Alps: Augustinus Tyfernus 74Marjeta Šašel Kos8 Sta. Maria sopra Siwa: Inventing a Slavic Venus 88Marko Marincǐ č9 Images from Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical Interpretations of Ancient Drama 99Andreja N. InkretPart III Czech Republic 113Jan Bažant10 Classical Reception in the Czech Republic: An Introduction 115Jan Bažant11 Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature between the National Revival and the Avant‐Garde 121Daniela Čadkova12 The Classical Tradition and Nationalism: The Art and Architecture of Prague, 1860–1900 133Jan Bažant13 The Case of the Oresteia: Classical Drama on the Czech Stage, 1889–2012 146Alena SarkissianPart IV Poland 159Dorota Dutsch14 Classical Reception in Poland: An Introduction 161Dorota Dutsch15 From Fictitious Letters to Celestial Revolutions: Copernicus and the Classics 166Dorota Dutsch and Francois Zdanowicz16 Respublica and the Language of Freedom: The Polish Experiment 179Anna Grzesḱ owiak‐Krwawicz17 Two Essays on Classical Reception in Poland 190Jerzy Axer18 Parallels between Greece and Poland in Juliusz Słowacki’s Oeuvre 207Maria KalinowskaPart V Hungary 223Farkas Gabor Kiss19 Classical Reception in Hungary: An Introduction 225Farkas Gabor Kiss20 Classical Reception in Sixteenth‐Century Hungarian Drama 233Agnes Juhasz‐Ormsby21 Truditur dies die: Reading Horace as a Political Attitude in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Hungary 245Abel Tamas22 The Shepherdess and the Myrmillo: The Sculptor Istvan Ferenczy and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Hungary 260Nora VeszpremiPart VI Romania 277Dana LaCourse Munteanu23 Classical Reception in Romania: An Introduction 279Radu Ardevan, Florin Berindeanu, and Ioan Piso24 Loving Vergil, Hating Rome: Coşbuc as Translator and Poet 287Carmen Fenechiu and Dana LaCourse Munteanu25 Noica’s Becoming within Being and Meno’s Paradox 300Octavian Gabor26 Reception of the Tropaeum Traiani: Former Paths and Future Directions 312Allison L.C. EmmersonPart VII Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro 327 Nada Zečević27 Classical Reception in Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro: An Introduction 329Nada Zecě vić and Nenad Ristović28 Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography of Bosnia (Eighteenth Century) 336Nada Zečević29 Innovative Impact of the Classical Tradition on Early Modern Serbian Literature 347Nenad Ristovic ́30 Classical Heritage in Serbian Lyric Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Jovan Dučić, Miloš Crnjanski, and Ivan V. Lalić 360Ana Petković31 The Ancient Sources of Njegoš’s Poetics 373Darko Todorovic ́Part VIII Bulgaria 387Yoana Sirakova32 Classical Reception in Bulgaria: An Introduction 389Yoana Sirakova33 Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity: A Melting Pot of Thracian, Greek, and Roman Culture 396Mirena Slavova34 In the Labyrinth of Allusions: Ancient Figures in Bulgarian Prose Fiction 411Violeta Gerjikova35 “Bulgarian” Orpheus between the National and the Foreign, between Antiquity and Postmodernism 423Yoana Sirakova36 Staging of Ancient Tragedies in Bulgaria and Their Influence on the Process of Translation and Creative Reception 437Dorothea TabakovaPart IX Russia 449Judith E. Kalb37 Classical Reception in Russia: An Introduction 451Judith E. Kalb38 “Men in Cases”: The Perception of Classical Schools in Prerevolutionary Russia 457Grigory Starikovsky39 Homer in Russia 469Judith E. Kalb40 Vergil in Russia: Milestones of Identity 480Zara Martirosova Torlone41 Russian Encounters with Classical Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and National Identity in the Tsarist Empire 493Caspar MeyerPart X Armenia and Georgia 507Zara Martirosova Torlone42 Armenian Culture and Classical Antiquity 509Armen Kazaryan and Gohar Muradyan43 Medieval Greek–Armenian Literary Relations 516Gohar Muradyan44 The “Classical” Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani: The Greco‐Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art 528Armen Kazaryan45 Classical Reception in Georgia: An Introduction 541Ketevan Gurchiani46 Greek Tragedy on the Georgian Stage in the Twentieth Century 548Ketevan GurchianiIndex 560