BOOKS by Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Jażdżewska)
The book reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-fi... more The book reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE – that is, roughly from Plato’s death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in the book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue’s decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre’s unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.
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Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III Old Questions and New Perspectives, Dec 23, 2020
Nonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the most important Greek poet of
Late Antiquity, is best known f... more Nonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the most important Greek poet of
Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that
gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine
and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John’s
Gospel which renders the Fourth Gospel into sophisticated
hexameter verse. This volume, edited by Filip Doroszewski and
Katarzyna Jażdżewska, brings together twenty-six essays by
eminent scholars that discuss Nonnus’ cultural and literary
background, the literary techniques and motifs used by the poet, as
well as the composition of the Dionysiaca and the exegetical
principles applied in the Paraphrase. As such, the book will
signicantly deepen our understanding of literary culture and
religion in Late Antiquity.
Readership
All interested in Nonnus of Panopolis, epic poetry, Greek
mythology and religion, early Christianity, patristics, as well as
scholars and students of classical antiquity and late antique world.
special issue of: Argument. Biannual Philosophical Journal 7.2. On-line: http://www.argument-journal.eu/current-issue, 2017
Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Dorota Muszytowska
Qumran Pesharim as an Example of an Acc... more Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Dorota Muszytowska
Qumran Pesharim as an Example of an Accommodative Commentary 9
Marek Mejor
Buddhist Tradition in Quest of the Authenticity and the True Meaning
of the ‘Word of the Buddha’ (buddha-vacana) 27
Katarzyna Pachniak
The Muslim Tradition of Commentary: Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’s)
Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle 47
Adam Bednarczyk
Prose Criticism in the Bush Warbler’s Hideout: Mumyōzōshi as the Earliest Literary Critical Commentary on Genji monogatari 59
Paweł Dziadul
Andrew of Caesarea’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation
and Its Role in Medieval Orthodox Slavonic Literature 77
Dominika Budzanowska
Hieronymus’ Revision of Victorinus’ Commentary and Augustine’s
Summary of Tyconius’ Rules 89
Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz
Byzantine Theory of Paraphrase in Rhetorical Treatises and Commentaries
and the Original Version of Theon’s Progymnasmata 101
Krzysztof Morta
Ancient Commenting Literature and the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville 115
Filip Doroszewski
Commenting with Hexameter. The Imagery of Light and Darkness
in Nonnus’ Poetic Exegesis of John 3:1–21 127
Adam Poznański
Some Remarks on the Super Esaiam of Pseudo–Joachim of Fiore 137
Izabella Andrzejuk
Aristotélisme ou thomisme? La dispute sur le caractère du discours
de l’éthique dans le Commentaire de saint Thomas à L’Éthique
à Nicomaque 147
Artur Andrzejuk
Le commentaire de Thomas d’Aquin à Liber de causis – odyssée de textes
et de conceptions à travers les cultures, les époques et les écoles
philosophiques 155
Dorota Gacka
Features of an Explanatio in Three Commentaries from Around the End
of the Middle Ages. Some Observations on Commentum of John
of Dąbrówka and on Commentaries on Theodulus and Facetus (Lyon 1514) 167
Krzysztof Bracha
Commentaries on the Decalogue in the Late Middle Ages: Between Method
and Catechesis. Poland in the European Context. The State of Research
and Perspectives 177
Agnieszka Maciąg
“Spiritu ambulate”, id est racionis ductu. Fifteenth-Century Latin Glosses
on the Apostolic Letters 195
PAPERS by Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Jażdżewska)
Classical Quarterly 74.1 (2024) 227-239
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838824000119
The aim of the paper is to uncover the intellectual tr... more https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838824000119
The aim of the paper is to uncover the intellectual traditions behind Dio Chrysostom’s less known work, Oration 20: On Anachoresis. The examination reveals a variety of subtexts and traditions with which Dio engages and shows that at its core the text inspects three types of lives promoted by three philosophical schools: Epicurean, Stoic, and Peripatetic. However, they are never referred to directly, which raises questions concerning the purpose of Dio’s strategy of not acknowledging the sources of the ideas he engages with. The paper also adds to our understanding of the concept of anachoresis and the controversies surrounding it in pagan antiquity.
In: D. De Brasi, F. Fronterotta (ed.), Poikile Physis. Biological Literature in Greek during the Roman Empire: Genres, Scopes, and Problems, Berlin-Boston 2022 (De Gruyter), p. 33-52
In: S. Francher-d’Espèrey, A.-M. Favreau-Linder, A. Rehbinder (ed.), Dialogue, dialogisme, polyphonie: questions d’énonciation dans les textes rhétoriques et philosophique de l’Antiquité, Bordeaux 2022 (Ausonius Éditions), 241-257
The paper examines communicative patterns and discursive techniques at work in Xenophon’s Memorab... more The paper examines communicative patterns and discursive techniques at work in Xenophon’s Memorabilia. It argues that the way Xenophon’s Socrates engages in communication with his followers consistently underscores his commitment to his companions, which is reciprocated on their side with trust and a willingness to undergo his scrutiny. Socrates’ commitment to his associates is also emphasized in Xenophon’s accounts of his interactions with hostile interlocutors, discussions he undertakes for the sake of his companions, whose silent presence is repeatedly emphasized by the narrator. Recent scholars have recognized the teacher-persona as a vital aspect of Xenophon’s Socrates; the analysis of communicative patterns inherent in the Memorabilia further emphasizes the prime importance of this identity, and elucidates the narrative and dramatic strategies Xenophon uses to highlight this. At the same time, an examination of the communicative situations described by Xenophon’s reveals his considerable care and design in representing various responses to Socrates’ scrutinizing and philosophizing.
In: P Möllendorff, G. M. Müller (ed.), Gespräch und Erzählung. Strategien und Funktionen des Narrativen im antiken Dialog, Stuttgart 2022 (Steiner), p. 181-195
In T.S. Schmidt, M. Vamvouri, R. Hirsch-Luipold (eds.), The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch, Leiden (Brill), 2020, 459-474
It has been noted by scholars that Plutarch’s Amatorius draws from two different genres, the dial... more It has been noted by scholars that Plutarch’s Amatorius draws from two different genres, the dialogue and the drama, in acknowledgement of their significance for the Greek discourse on love. This chapter argues that there is a third important literary tradition that Plutarch recognizes as central to the development of conceptions of love and which plays a substantial role in the Amatorius: it is didactic hexameter poetry, and in particular Hesiod and Empedocles, with whom the dialogue establishes complex, intertextual relations.
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 60 (2020), 61-67
The article examines the phrase μεσημβρία ἵσταται ἡ δὴ καλουμένη σταθερά in Plato's "Phaedrus" 24... more The article examines the phrase μεσημβρία ἵσταται ἡ δὴ καλουμένη σταθερά in Plato's "Phaedrus" 242a. Since the 18th c. the words ἡ δὴ καλουμένη σταθερά have been considered a later interpolation or a marginal gloss. It is argued that there is no reason to delete the phrase from Plato's text. As an addendum, it is pointed out that Plato's follower Heraclides of Pontus appears to have interacted with this Platonic passage when he timed a vision of Empedotimus to μεσημβρία σταθερά.
In: J. Beneker, G. Tsouvala (eds.), The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2020, 178-198
In K. Oikonomopoulou, S. Xenophontos (eds.), A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch, Brill 2019, 66-78
In Ph. Bosman, ed. Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Routledge 2019, 160-177
The contribution examines dynamics of interactions between sophists and rulers in Philostratus’ L... more The contribution examines dynamics of interactions between sophists and rulers in Philostratus’ Lives of Sophists and argues that such encounters have a markedly different dynamics than depictions of a meeting of a wise man or a philosopher with a ruler. The paper is organized around three categories of sophist-ruler interactions: first, ones in which a sophist acts as an entertainer and provider of pleasurable pastime for a ruler; second, ones in which a sophist is a persuader of and, more rarely, an adviser to a ruler; and third, ones in which a sophist becomes an adversary of a ruler or gets into a confrontation with him. For Philostratus, the first two categories represent sophists’ important social roles and are associated with two ways a sophist can exert influence on a ruler: by delighting him and by persuading him. Although Philostratus' sophists occasionally display disdain for the political power and emphasize their independence – and sometimes even become adversaries of rulers and get into a confrontation with them – fearless frankness is not perceived by Philostratus as a typical or commendable behavior of a sophist.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 138 (2018) 249-260
This contribution reconsiders the question of indications of speakers in ancient Greek dialogue l... more This contribution reconsiders the question of indications of speakers in ancient Greek dialogue literature and their ‘invention’ by Theodoret of Cyrus by offering a systematic examination of the available (mostly papyrological) evidence. It discusses ancient conventions for marking changes of interlocutors in Greek literary dialogues and compares them with those present in dramatic works and in documentary and paraliterary texts such as reports of court proceedings, the Acta Alexandrinorum and Acta Martyrum, and reports of Church councils. It is hypothesized that the development
of indications of speakers in Greek dialogue was influenced by documentary practices of the Imperial period and by paraliterary genres which imitated them.
In G. Danzig, D. Johnson, D. Morrison, Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies, Brill 2018, 187-207
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BOOKS by Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Jażdżewska)
Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that
gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine
and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John’s
Gospel which renders the Fourth Gospel into sophisticated
hexameter verse. This volume, edited by Filip Doroszewski and
Katarzyna Jażdżewska, brings together twenty-six essays by
eminent scholars that discuss Nonnus’ cultural and literary
background, the literary techniques and motifs used by the poet, as
well as the composition of the Dionysiaca and the exegetical
principles applied in the Paraphrase. As such, the book will
signicantly deepen our understanding of literary culture and
religion in Late Antiquity.
Readership
All interested in Nonnus of Panopolis, epic poetry, Greek
mythology and religion, early Christianity, patristics, as well as
scholars and students of classical antiquity and late antique world.
Introduction 7
Dorota Muszytowska
Qumran Pesharim as an Example of an Accommodative Commentary 9
Marek Mejor
Buddhist Tradition in Quest of the Authenticity and the True Meaning
of the ‘Word of the Buddha’ (buddha-vacana) 27
Katarzyna Pachniak
The Muslim Tradition of Commentary: Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’s)
Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle 47
Adam Bednarczyk
Prose Criticism in the Bush Warbler’s Hideout: Mumyōzōshi as the Earliest Literary Critical Commentary on Genji monogatari 59
Paweł Dziadul
Andrew of Caesarea’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation
and Its Role in Medieval Orthodox Slavonic Literature 77
Dominika Budzanowska
Hieronymus’ Revision of Victorinus’ Commentary and Augustine’s
Summary of Tyconius’ Rules 89
Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz
Byzantine Theory of Paraphrase in Rhetorical Treatises and Commentaries
and the Original Version of Theon’s Progymnasmata 101
Krzysztof Morta
Ancient Commenting Literature and the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville 115
Filip Doroszewski
Commenting with Hexameter. The Imagery of Light and Darkness
in Nonnus’ Poetic Exegesis of John 3:1–21 127
Adam Poznański
Some Remarks on the Super Esaiam of Pseudo–Joachim of Fiore 137
Izabella Andrzejuk
Aristotélisme ou thomisme? La dispute sur le caractère du discours
de l’éthique dans le Commentaire de saint Thomas à L’Éthique
à Nicomaque 147
Artur Andrzejuk
Le commentaire de Thomas d’Aquin à Liber de causis – odyssée de textes
et de conceptions à travers les cultures, les époques et les écoles
philosophiques 155
Dorota Gacka
Features of an Explanatio in Three Commentaries from Around the End
of the Middle Ages. Some Observations on Commentum of John
of Dąbrówka and on Commentaries on Theodulus and Facetus (Lyon 1514) 167
Krzysztof Bracha
Commentaries on the Decalogue in the Late Middle Ages: Between Method
and Catechesis. Poland in the European Context. The State of Research
and Perspectives 177
Agnieszka Maciąg
“Spiritu ambulate”, id est racionis ductu. Fifteenth-Century Latin Glosses
on the Apostolic Letters 195
PAPERS by Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Jażdżewska)
The aim of the paper is to uncover the intellectual traditions behind Dio Chrysostom’s less known work, Oration 20: On Anachoresis. The examination reveals a variety of subtexts and traditions with which Dio engages and shows that at its core the text inspects three types of lives promoted by three philosophical schools: Epicurean, Stoic, and Peripatetic. However, they are never referred to directly, which raises questions concerning the purpose of Dio’s strategy of not acknowledging the sources of the ideas he engages with. The paper also adds to our understanding of the concept of anachoresis and the controversies surrounding it in pagan antiquity.
of indications of speakers in Greek dialogue was influenced by documentary practices of the Imperial period and by paraliterary genres which imitated them.
Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that
gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine
and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John’s
Gospel which renders the Fourth Gospel into sophisticated
hexameter verse. This volume, edited by Filip Doroszewski and
Katarzyna Jażdżewska, brings together twenty-six essays by
eminent scholars that discuss Nonnus’ cultural and literary
background, the literary techniques and motifs used by the poet, as
well as the composition of the Dionysiaca and the exegetical
principles applied in the Paraphrase. As such, the book will
signicantly deepen our understanding of literary culture and
religion in Late Antiquity.
Readership
All interested in Nonnus of Panopolis, epic poetry, Greek
mythology and religion, early Christianity, patristics, as well as
scholars and students of classical antiquity and late antique world.
Introduction 7
Dorota Muszytowska
Qumran Pesharim as an Example of an Accommodative Commentary 9
Marek Mejor
Buddhist Tradition in Quest of the Authenticity and the True Meaning
of the ‘Word of the Buddha’ (buddha-vacana) 27
Katarzyna Pachniak
The Muslim Tradition of Commentary: Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’s)
Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle 47
Adam Bednarczyk
Prose Criticism in the Bush Warbler’s Hideout: Mumyōzōshi as the Earliest Literary Critical Commentary on Genji monogatari 59
Paweł Dziadul
Andrew of Caesarea’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation
and Its Role in Medieval Orthodox Slavonic Literature 77
Dominika Budzanowska
Hieronymus’ Revision of Victorinus’ Commentary and Augustine’s
Summary of Tyconius’ Rules 89
Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz
Byzantine Theory of Paraphrase in Rhetorical Treatises and Commentaries
and the Original Version of Theon’s Progymnasmata 101
Krzysztof Morta
Ancient Commenting Literature and the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville 115
Filip Doroszewski
Commenting with Hexameter. The Imagery of Light and Darkness
in Nonnus’ Poetic Exegesis of John 3:1–21 127
Adam Poznański
Some Remarks on the Super Esaiam of Pseudo–Joachim of Fiore 137
Izabella Andrzejuk
Aristotélisme ou thomisme? La dispute sur le caractère du discours
de l’éthique dans le Commentaire de saint Thomas à L’Éthique
à Nicomaque 147
Artur Andrzejuk
Le commentaire de Thomas d’Aquin à Liber de causis – odyssée de textes
et de conceptions à travers les cultures, les époques et les écoles
philosophiques 155
Dorota Gacka
Features of an Explanatio in Three Commentaries from Around the End
of the Middle Ages. Some Observations on Commentum of John
of Dąbrówka and on Commentaries on Theodulus and Facetus (Lyon 1514) 167
Krzysztof Bracha
Commentaries on the Decalogue in the Late Middle Ages: Between Method
and Catechesis. Poland in the European Context. The State of Research
and Perspectives 177
Agnieszka Maciąg
“Spiritu ambulate”, id est racionis ductu. Fifteenth-Century Latin Glosses
on the Apostolic Letters 195
The aim of the paper is to uncover the intellectual traditions behind Dio Chrysostom’s less known work, Oration 20: On Anachoresis. The examination reveals a variety of subtexts and traditions with which Dio engages and shows that at its core the text inspects three types of lives promoted by three philosophical schools: Epicurean, Stoic, and Peripatetic. However, they are never referred to directly, which raises questions concerning the purpose of Dio’s strategy of not acknowledging the sources of the ideas he engages with. The paper also adds to our understanding of the concept of anachoresis and the controversies surrounding it in pagan antiquity.
of indications of speakers in Greek dialogue was influenced by documentary practices of the Imperial period and by paraliterary genres which imitated them.
The paper focuses on reception of Plutarch's Moralia in Theodore Metochites' Semeioseis gnomikai. It discusses chapter 71 of Metochites' work - one of several chapters focused on ancient authors - which is dedicated to Plutarch. Metochites praises Plutarch as a wise man and a philosopher and in particular approves of his character. According to Metochites, Plutarch was not tainted by usual flaws of intellectuals such as envy and arrogance, but was motivated by pure love of wisdom and generously acknowledged achievements of his predecessors. Metochites interprets Plutarch's erudition, polymathia, as a sign of a noble, high-minded nature, and therefore as evidence of a moral virtue.
Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias and Lucian
Plutarch dedicates one of his Lives to Lycurgus of Sparta. However, the exemplum of the Spartan lawgiver attracted not only his attention but also the interest of several imperial authors. This paper offers a comparative approach to Lycurgus’ representation in the imperial literature, focusing in particular on Plutarch, Pausanias, and Lucian. First, Pausanias gives the general coordinates on Lycurgus and its legislation in his historical introduction to Laconia (3, 1–10), following closely the Herodotean model. A general comparison between Plutarch and Pausanias can be valuable because their accounts present some interesting differences to focus on. For example, Pausanias inserts Lycurgus in the Agiad royal house (following Herodotus) whereas Plutarch prefers the most well-know Euripontid genealogy. Also, according to Pausanias, Lycurgus changed the human sacrifice into the whipping of ephebes, saving some young Spartans from certain death: though Plutarch stress very much Lycurgus’s generosity, he does know nothing about the conversion of the deadly ritual. Secondly, Lucian’s Ancharsis is worthy of interest because it is one of the rare cases in which some topical motifs of Sparta’s ideal representation are criticized and even mocked: the "reversal" humor involves both the practices of the agogé and their creator, Lycurgus. Through a technique repeatedly used by Lucian, Solon is asked a series of questions and receives some objections from the barbarian Anacharsis, which often sound comical because expressed from the unusual point of view. Therefore, as we will see, both Lucian and Pausanias offer different perspectives on Lycurgus: the main purpose of this paper is to compare their outlooks with the “standard” and idealized image of Plutarch’s Lycurgus.