Add to ORKGTraduttore traditore. Is it possible to translate ancient Greek text? Ancient Greek literature belongs to a culture very different from the modern one. The ancient Greek language, as its medium, is incomprehensible outside the general context of the Greek civilisation. Any translation of an ancient Greek text is always to some extent false, or at least artificial, and it cannot express the peculiar character of the reality referred to in the original. Selected translations of passages from Homer, Herodotus and Aeschines illustrate the incompatibility of the ancient and modern styles of narration. The study of the language of literature in relation to the reality it represents is advocated as a possible solution to the problem. It is also re...
By referencing genealogical conclusions drawn by Ireneusz Opacki in his article on the interweaving...
The Secret of Chloris. On the Greek Anthroponyms in Horace’s Odes The trend of poesis docta in Ho...
The article concentrates on the works by Maurycy Gosławski undertaking a broadly understood religiou...
The author takes a close look at translating ancient texts from the viewpoint of a historian. He exp...
The Woman Translator in the Middle Ages. Selected Examples of Female Translation Activity Translator...
Artykuł przedstawia znaczenie i zastosowanie dwóch pojęć technicznych, istotnych dla zrozumienia i i...
Pederasty occurring in ancient Greece, was an essential element of its culture and identity. It had...
The 20th-century Greek poet Yorgos Seferis (the penname of Yorgos Seferiadis, 1900–1971) is consider...
The title of the article is a cluster of various plays on words which build up an allusion to classi...
In the ancient literature (Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian) we can easily find expressions full o...
The entire text is divided into four chapters, two of which are published in the present issue of It...
The aim of presented paper is to place the work of Xenophanes of Colophon in the history of Greek p...
Although the ancient Greeks did not use the concept of tolerance, they were not unfamiliar with the ...
The entire text is divided into four chapters, two of which are published in the present issue of It...
The very dissertation is devoted to three works of the Old-Polish literature describing the motive ...
By referencing genealogical conclusions drawn by Ireneusz Opacki in his article on the interweaving...
The Secret of Chloris. On the Greek Anthroponyms in Horace’s Odes The trend of poesis docta in Ho...
The article concentrates on the works by Maurycy Gosławski undertaking a broadly understood religiou...
The author takes a close look at translating ancient texts from the viewpoint of a historian. He exp...
The Woman Translator in the Middle Ages. Selected Examples of Female Translation Activity Translator...
Artykuł przedstawia znaczenie i zastosowanie dwóch pojęć technicznych, istotnych dla zrozumienia i i...
Pederasty occurring in ancient Greece, was an essential element of its culture and identity. It had...
The 20th-century Greek poet Yorgos Seferis (the penname of Yorgos Seferiadis, 1900–1971) is consider...
The title of the article is a cluster of various plays on words which build up an allusion to classi...
In the ancient literature (Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian) we can easily find expressions full o...
The entire text is divided into four chapters, two of which are published in the present issue of It...
The aim of presented paper is to place the work of Xenophanes of Colophon in the history of Greek p...
Although the ancient Greeks did not use the concept of tolerance, they were not unfamiliar with the ...
The entire text is divided into four chapters, two of which are published in the present issue of It...
The very dissertation is devoted to three works of the Old-Polish literature describing the motive ...
By referencing genealogical conclusions drawn by Ireneusz Opacki in his article on the interweaving...
The Secret of Chloris. On the Greek Anthroponyms in Horace’s Odes The trend of poesis docta in Ho...
The article concentrates on the works by Maurycy Gosławski undertaking a broadly understood religiou...