KeriaPub Date : 2018-11-22DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.3.95-108
Alenka Jensterle-Doležal
{"title":"In the Realm of Politics, Nonsense, and the Absurd","authors":"Alenka Jensterle-Doležal","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.3.95-108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.3.95-108","url":null,"abstract":"The myth of Antigone remained relevant in the twentieth century, and new plays inspired by this myth appeared not only in the West but also in Slavonic drama during and after WW2. Oppressed societies, abuses of power, persecution and execution of political and ideological opponents create a fertile ground for a creative return to the Sophoclean tragedy. Some of the new plays have roots in the trauma of WW2, others in post-war Soviet domination. Significantly, these plays attach growing importance to the character of Creon. Among the discussed playwrights are two Serbs, Jovan Hristić and Oto Bihajli-Merin, two Croats, Marijan Matković and Drago Ivanišević, and the Slovene, Dominik Smole; four Poles, Artur Marya Swinarski, Krystyna Berwińska, Nora Szczepańska, and Roman Brandstaetter; one Slovak, Peter Karvaš, and one Czech, Milan Uhde.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42341390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-11-22DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.3.27-40
N. Braginskaya
{"title":"Symbolist Ideas in the Scripts of Gubpolitprosvet","authors":"N. Braginskaya","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.3.27-40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.3.27-40","url":null,"abstract":"During the period of the so-called Silver age of Russian culture, three outstanding translators of the Greek tragedy, Tadeusz Zieliński, Innokentiy Annensky and Vyacheslav Ivanov, put forward the idea of the third, Slavonic Renaissance – the new rebirth of Antiquity, with the leading role of the Slavic peoples, particularly the Russians. They claimed that while the first Renaissance was Romanesque and the second German (in the era of Winckelmann, Goethe and German classical philology), the third one was supposed to be Slavonic. In the early Soviet period, the idea of Slavonic Renaissance brought about some unexpected results, first of all precisely in the sphere of theater. The paper focuses on how symbolist ideas got to be expressed in the performances of classical tragedies. Ivanov authored the expression “creative self-performance” that later, in the Soviet era, acquired the meaning of “non-professional performance,” such as comedies staged by “sailors and the Red Army soldiers,” Adrian Piotrovsky’s “amateur theatre,” and the pioneer reconstruction of the scenic performance of Aristophanes’ comedies done by Sergey Radlov, Adrian Piotrovsky, and others.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45248516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.1.105-129
Kajetan Škraban
{"title":"Gender, Genre, and Succession: Reception of Statius’ Achilleid in Baroque Opera","authors":"Kajetan Škraban","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.1.105-129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.1.105-129","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the reception of the Achilleid, an epic fragment by the Flavian poet Statius, in the Baroque opera. The Achilleid weaves unique connections among the issues of gender, succession, and genre, and as such merits an important place in studying the operatic reception of antiquity. The elements mentioned above (gender, succession, genre, as well as transvestism etc.) have been significant in establishing the opera as an art form; indeed, in the light of their historical influence some of the operatic works inspired by Statius may be perceived as major, well-nigh constitutive building blocks of the operatic art.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45434485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.1.131-144
Anja Dular
{"title":"Classical Authors on the Bookshelves of Carniolan Nobility","authors":"Anja Dular","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.1.131-144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.1.131-144","url":null,"abstract":"Works by classical authors had a significant share in the aristocratic libraries of the Slovenian lands. While the selection of authors varied, there were some mainstays: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Homer. The language of the books was either original or a German or French translation. All publications were furnished with commentaries and introductory chapters containing the authors’ biographies, often even with glossaries and grammar exercises. These additions, however, were considerably reduced in the 19th century. All library owners preserved classical language textbooks as well.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48160166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.1.31-46
Jadranka Cergol
{"title":"Etruscans and Trojans in Virgil’s Aeneid: Founders of New Civilisational Values of the Roman Empire","authors":"Jadranka Cergol","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.1.31-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.1.31-46","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents fresh reflections on the role played by Etruscans and Trojans in the dramaturgy of Virgil’s Aeneid, seeking to define the civilisational values common to the two peoples – the peoples that were to form the foundations of a nascent Roman Empire both in Augustus’ political programme and in Virgil’s literary concept. Foregrounded is the thesis that Virgil’s conception and structure of the Aeneid juxtapose the historical fate of the Etruscans with the myth of the Trojans: both peoples are the bearers of new civilisational values, which are manifested in military fortitudo, in the monarchic constitution of the empire, and in religious pietas.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47532396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/keria.20.1.229-240
D. Novak
{"title":"Maro Duka: Mačje zlato","authors":"D. Novak","doi":"10.4312/keria.20.1.229-240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.20.1.229-240","url":null,"abstract":"Maro Duka (Μάρω Δούκα) se je rodila leta 1947 v mestu Hania na Kreti. Leta 1966 se je preselila v Atene, kjer je začela s študijem na Oddelku za zgodovino in arheologijo na Filozofski fakulteti. Kmalu zatem, ko se je vpisala na univerzo, natančneje 21. aprila 1967, je v Grčiji prišlo do državnega udara. To je vzpodbudilo takrat dvajsetletno Maro, da se je pridružila študentskim gibanjem, ki so se borila proti represivni hunti. V tistem času jo je vojaška oblast zaprla, ker je skrivala člana odporniškega gibanja, a je k sreči prejela le pogojno kazen. Roman z naslovom Αρχαία σκουριά (Mačje zlato) je nastal leta 1979, kmalu po koncu diktature (padla je leta 1974) in v času, ko se je v Grčiji ponovno začela vzpostavljati demokracija.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42753769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.1.147-156
David Movrin
{"title":"Editing the Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Dr Joža Lovrenčič: New Evidence","authors":"David Movrin","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.1.147-156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.1.147-156","url":null,"abstract":"Editing the Slovenian translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Joža Lovrenčič (1890–1952), left as an unpublished manuscript, has led to the discovery of two original poetry collections by Lovrenčič, which had remained unpublished in the family archives after his death. The first collection, written in 1949, is titled No-one Nothing / in sad songs with a joyful accent / which he was singing about himself in third person / for fun and entertainment / when he went to Parnassus on foot. The other, Brother Honoratus: A Chronicle (1950), is a poetic rendering of a folk story heard by Lovrenčič in prison in August 1945, written in ten chapters. Both collections explore the position of inner exile.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41793951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/keria.20.1.157-226
Joža Lovrenčič
{"title":"Publij Ovidij Nazon: Metamorfoze 10–12","authors":"Joža Lovrenčič","doi":"10.4312/keria.20.1.157-226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.20.1.157-226","url":null,"abstract":"Skozi neznanski se eter v žafranastem plašču odpravilpotlej Himén je; urezal je pot v deželo Kikoncev,kamor ga Orfejev glas zaman je vabil in klical.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45109845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.1.243-244
Marko Marinčič
{"title":"Tit Makij Plavt: Perzijec, Kazina","authors":"Marko Marinčič","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.1.243-244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.1.243-244","url":null,"abstract":"Vsak čas bomo imeli v slovenščini vse klasične grške tragedije. Tudi površni Tavčarjevi in pogosto arhaični Sovretovi prevodi bodo kmalu brez izjeme nadomeščeni z novimi, modernimi. Gantarjevi prevodi Sofokla in Ajshila tudi po več desetletjih učinkujejo moderno; gledališkemu občinstvu, vajenemu shakespearovskega in schillerjanskega blankverza, so povsem domači. Podobno bi moralo veljati za rimske tragedije in komedije, ki se jih prav v zadnjem času loteva vrsta mlajših prevajalcev in prevajalcev srednjih let. Vendar je priložnosti, da bi bili ti prevodi deležni odrske preizkušnje, žal bolj malo. Celo Seneka, ki je na nemških odrih že desetletja hit, se pri nas stežka uveljavlja.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43850896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
KeriaPub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.4312/KERIA.20.1.47-104
Milan Lovenjak
{"title":"Roman Tribune Cola di Rienzo (1347), Res Gestae Divi Augusti and Lex de Imperio Vespasiani","authors":"Milan Lovenjak","doi":"10.4312/KERIA.20.1.47-104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/KERIA.20.1.47-104","url":null,"abstract":"The anonymous and fragmentarily preserved Romance-dialect Chronicle describing the history of Rome in 1325–1360, the extensive correspondence between Cola di Rienzo (1313–1354) and rulers, nobles, Church dignitaries, and intellectuals (especially Petrarch) in Italy and abroad, as well as various documentary sources allow us to trace Rienzo’s career in considerable detail. A papal notary, a scholar in Classical literature, an exceptional orator and a copyist and translator of Ancient Roman inscriptions, Rienzo, aided by a group of followers, overthrew the baron rule in Rome in May 1347, assumed the title of ‘Roman Tribune’ and seized power with the aim of reuniting Italy under a common emperor, a concept modelled on the first Roman emperor, Augustus. After undertaking a number of more or less successful measures, public manifestations and diplomatic activities, he was forced to retreat by a clash with the barons’ army even before the end of the year. After years of exile, he returned triumphant in the middle of 1354 to seize power, but the first few weeks of tyranny and arbitrary measures led to his tragic demise at the hands of an infuriated mob. Later he grew into the subject of myth, portrayed in numerous literary, musical, and dramatic adaptations. The present paper examines two ancient documents crucial to the formation of the principate (the renewal of which was Cola’s objective), i.e. Augustus’ account of his own deeds (Res gestae divi Augusti), which is mentioned by Suetonius and known from three epigraphically attested copies from Asia Minor, and a bronze plaque bearing a law on the conferment of powers on Emperor Vespasian, the so-called Lex de imperio Vespasiani. The plaque was used as propaganda by Cola during his preparations for the coup. The inconsistencies between the parts of the law preserved on the plaque (it must have been preceded by at least one other plaque) and the account of Cola’s interpretation as given in the anonymous Chronicle raise a number of questions, which resist definitive answers.","PeriodicalId":36559,"journal":{"name":"Keria","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45947730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}