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ANTIQUITY and WE Introduction Katarzyna Marciniak, from the Antiquity and We OBTA and Civilizational Studies Antiquity and We at the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) ANTIQUITY At the same time, thanks to Professor Kazimierz Kumaniecki and Professor Lidia Win- niczuk [...], a certain ideological message got through to us. It was not enunciated explicitly, but rather implicitly. It was the conviction that the reception of ancient tradition was a living part of Polish collective memory and a marker of its transformations; that being aware AND WE of that tradition authorized and obliged us to speak and think of Poland and its place within Mediterranean civilization. Jerzy Axer, from Antiquity and We – The Perspective of the Period of Transformation ANTIQUITY AND WE The Humanities are always about the future of man, which he himself is not able to create without reaching to the resources generated in the past. Interdisciplinariness is getting to know the process in practice. The dialogic character of the Humanities also begins here. As an exer- cise in dialogue, OBTA perfectly fits my vision of the role that we are to play in society. Jan Kieniewicz, from OBTA and Civilizational Studies. Experiences and Prospects [...] reception studies view Antiquity as a cultural experience. In consequence, rather than the classical world as such, we examine the images of that world as created in subsequent epochs, in accordance with the assumption that each new deciphering of the classical legacy gives us knowledge about those who make the decoding in the first place. In this way, Classical Anti- quity becomes a reference point for generations, societies, and both small and large groups of culture recipients, wherever Mediterranean Civilization has managed to reach. Looking in the mirror of reception, comparing the various reflections and images emerging therein, we can better understand ourselves, others, and foreigners, who in fact cease to be foreigners the moment we realize they are looking in the same mirror. A new world unveils itself before the Humanities and scholarship in general – a world full of challenges and fascinating discoveries... Katarzyna Marciniak, from the Introduction ANTIQUITY AND WE Series OBTA STUDIES IN CLASSICAL RECEPTION Edited by Katarzyna Marciniak Other available volumes: Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Anti- quity. A Catalogue, eds. Katarzyna Marciniak, Elzbieta˙ Olechowska, Joan- na Kłos, Michał Kucharski, Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW, Warsaw 2013, online: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/omc_catalogue Tadeusz Zielinski,´ Queen of the Wind Maidens. Prologue, introduction Michał Mizera, translation from the Russian original Katarzyna Tomaszuk, English translation and textual notes Elzbieta˙ Olechowska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw 2013, online: http://www. al.uw.edu.pl/zielinski_queen Antyk i my, koncepcja i redakcja naukowa Katarzyna Marciniak, Wydział „Artes Liberales” UW, Warszawa 2013, online: http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/ antyk_i_my (Polish version of the present volume) ANTIQUITY AND WE at the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition Edited by Katarzyna Marciniak Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw Warsaw 2013 Antiquity and We at the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition Scholarly Reviewers of this Volume Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Borowski (Faculty for Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University) Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Kloch (Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw) Edited by Katarzyna Marciniak Translation Ars Verbi Translation Office and Joanna Dutkiewicz, in collaboration with the Authors English Language Editor Philip Earl Steele Design of Cover and Title Pages Zbigniew Karaszewski The cover image is part of a photograph © by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons Typesetting & Technical Edition Michał Kucharski We would also like to thank Joanna Kłos, Elzbieta˙ Olechowska, and Dobrosława Pankow-´ ska for their helpful remarks. Index prepared by Michał Kucharski; notes on contributors, based on the materials they provided, and the glossary of the most important names of structures inscribed in OBTA’s history prepared by Katarzyna Marciniak. © by Wydział „Artes Liberales”, Uniwersytet Warszawski and the Authors, 2013 This publication was financed through an endowment from HM Rector of the University of Warsaw; from the University of Warsaw Fund for Research; the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, Harvard University, awarded to Katarzyna Marciniak for the project Our Mythical Childhood... Classics and Children’s Literature Between East & West; the “Artes Liberales” Institute Foundation; and through funds from the Hannah Arendt Prize being at the disposal of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw. This publication also made avail of materials obtained thanks to the project Strategy of introducing and evaluating interdisciplinary studies and research at the university in the context of Poland’s reform of the higher education system (POKL.04.01.03-00-002/11) and the Mobility Plus Programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland (613/MOB/2011/0). ISBN 978-83-63636-19-7 Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw Printed and Bound by Zakład Graficzny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie´ 26/28 00-927 Warszawa (zam. 1267/2013) Table of Contents Introduction . 7 Glossary . 15 Jerzy Axer, Antiquity and We – The Perspective of the Period of Transformation ....................... 21 Jan Kieniewicz, OBTA and Civilizational Studies. Experiences and Prospects ........................ 49 Robert A. Sucharski, OBTA UW – An Eastern Countenance . 69 Witold Wołodkiewicz, Roman Law at OBTA . 91 Małgorzata Borowska, Hellenic Studies . 99 Jerzy Styka, Mediterranean Studies . 125 Anna Skolimowska, The Dantiscus Programme . 139 Justyna Olko, About Cross-Cultural Encounters and Academic Freedom . 165 Krzysztof Rutkowski, Hades in Les Halles. Antiquity within the Expanse of Paris . 179 PhD Students of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” Glosses . 193 Katarzyna Marciniak, The Ancient Tradition in the 21st Century – Cui Bono? . 209 Notes on Contributors . 283 Regular Employees of OBTA/IBI AL/FAL . 297 Illustrations (Authors & Rights) . 301 Index of Names . 305 INTRODUCTION AS BEFITS A FOUNDING MYTH, in the beginning was chaos – the stormy transformations Poland commenced in 1989. They allowed us to take up new challenges from which emerged the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe (OBTA), estab- lished in 1991 at the University of Warsaw. In the beginning was the word, as well. In the application submitted to the then Rector, Professor Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Professor Jerzy Axer – the author of the idea and the founder of the Centre – wrote: “The Centre is to serve as the initiator and coordinator of studies on the classical tradition in Polish culture writ large (including, in particular, writing, art, law, and the history of institutions and ideas) in the context of studies into this tradition within the territories bor- dering Poland (Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic region, Slovakia, Hun- gary, Bohemia, and Germany – in particular, Prussia). The classical tradition is understood here to mean the entire Greek, Roman, and Byzantine legacy. Due to its historical traditions and geographical location, Poland constitutes a natural hub for such studies for the entirety of East-Central Europe.”1 The scholars associated at the Centre also decided to pay particular at- tention to “the shared traditions of the continent and the dissemination into society’s awareness of knowledge concerning our common roots.” Thus, OBTA was in the avant-garde of studies on the reception of Antiquity, which were then still struggling for their place among classical studies, 1 Jerzy Axer, Wniosek o powołanie mi˛edzywydziałowego Osrodka´ Bada´nnad Tradycj ˛a Antyczn ˛aw Polsce i w Europie Srodkowo-Wschodniej´ , Dec. 12, 1991, from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW Archive. 7 Katarzyna Marciniak although their foundations were laid already in the late 19th century by the remarkable Polish classical philologist and popularizer of Antiquity, Tadeusz Zielinski.´ At our Centre he will always be considered a Master, and the title of this volume is among our tributes to his memory.2 Unlike traditional classical philology, reception studies view Anti- quity as a cultural experience. In consequence, rather than the classical world as such, we examine the images of that world as created in subsequent epochs, in accordance with the assumption that each new deci- phering of the classical legacy gives us knowledge about those who make the decoding in the first place. In this way, Classical Antiquity becomes a reference point for generations, societies, and both small and large groups of culture recipients, wherever Mediterranean Civilization has managed to reach. Looking in the mirror of reception, comparing the various reflec- tions and images emerging therein, we can better understand ourselves, others, and foreigners, who in fact cease to be foreigners the moment we realize they are looking in the same mirror. A new world unveils itself be- fore the Humanities and scholarship in general – a world full of challenges and fascinating discoveries. Thus, the fact that OBTA’s first and still valid address is ulica Nowy Swiat´ [New World Street] may be much more than merely a coincidence. It is ironic that the transformations reflected in the mirror of reception have made it lose its sheen. The experience of 20th-century totalitarianisms, the questioning of the importance of
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