Scholia from Gregory of Nyssa’s Apologia in Hexaemeron in the Fourteenth-Century Slavonic Hexaemeron Collection

Author(s): Lara Sels / Language(s): English Issue: 14-15/2015

The present article provides a critical edition of some of the scholia interpolated in the 14th-century South Slavonic translation of Basil of Caesarea’s Homiliae in Hexaemeron (CPG 2835), viz. six fragments from Gregory of Nyssa’s Apologia in Hexaemeron. These fragments correspond to marginalia in a number of Greek text witnesses from the 10th and 11th centuries. The Slavonic evidence is analysed in the light of the Greek manuscript tradition, viz. on the basis of the Apologia edition of H. R. Drobner (2009) and a collation of the Greek manuscripts Codex Florentinus Laurentianus gr. IV.27 (A3) and Codex Oxoniensis Bodleianus Baroccianus gr. 228 (E6).

ЕПОСЪТ ЗА ДИГЕНИС АКРИТАС: ПРЕСЕЧНИ ТОЧКИ МЕЖДУ ВИЗАНТИЯ И АРАБИТЕ.

Author(s): Zdravka Mihaylova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

Cultural exchange between Byzantium and the Arabs can be traced in literature, science and arts during periods of peaceful co-existence, constituting evidence of a shared spiritual topos for Byzantines and Arabs. Although the Arab Caliphate repeatedly attacked the Byzantine Empire, often conquering territory, there was also peaceful interaction between the two polities, mainly trade and cultural exchange. This paper sheds light through the folk epic of Digenis Akritas on a syncretic identity forged during the early years of Islam and the Caliphate, their spread across the Arabian Peninsula and around the Mediterranean and the sieges of Constantinople and Thessaloniki (904 CE), in the context of their conflict and contiguousness with Byzantium. Neighbouring the Islamic world is reflected in the tradition of Akrites (populations with special status living in the easterly border areas of Asia Minor), protecting the Byzantine Empire against raids by Muslim Arabs and later Seljuk Turks. The Byzantine epic about the hero Digenis Akritas celebrated in folk ballads (Akritic ballads) is based on historical events. The original long epic, combining Greek, Byzantine, and Asian motifs, originated in the 10th century and was further developed during the 12th century. It was recorded in several versions between the 12th and 17th centuries, the oldest blending popular and literary language.

Юбилеят на Татяна В. Цивян и XIV Балканистични четения в Института по славянознание към Руската академия на науките

Author(s): Irina Aleksandrovna Sedakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Anniversary; Scientific Life; Scholarly Conference

Гласовете на диаболизма и гласните струни на литературната наука (За Гласовете на българския диаболизъм…)

Author(s): Boris Minkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Мая Петрова-Танева. “Помощница на царете”: света императрица Теофана в южнославянската традиция

Author(s): Dilyana Petrova-Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

След „Медея”, или за общото между магията и превода

Author(s): Georgi Gochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

A blitz interview with Georgi Gochev, classical scholar and translator, on his recent work on a new Bulgarian version of Euripides’ Medea done especially for Snezhina Petrova’s socially engaged staging of the ancient tragedy.

The Myths of Prometheus and the Black Sea Region. Conflicting Versions, Shifting Paradigms

Author(s): Cleo Protokhristova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The topic of the paper is the interrelation between two ideological constructs: the figure of Prometheus and the so-called Black Sea region. Both of them represent, in specifically transformed versions, primary ideas and realities that lack the additionally attributed coherence of the later concepts currently in use. It aims to explore the key ancient myth of Prometheus in comparative perspective juxtaposing the stable presence it retains in the Western cultural imagination with its life in the Black Sea region, where this myth initially emerged. It focuses specifically on the underestimated political mobilization of the Prometheus myth in the construction of national identities and in the manufacturing of various ideologies. The different, often conflicting versions are analysed in diachronic perspective that provides observability of the potential paradigm shifts in the conceptualizations of the Prometheus figure.

Bulgarian Translations of τύχη: The Case of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

Author(s): Bogdana Paskaleva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

The paper is dedicated to the history of translation of Sophocles’ seminal tragedy Oedipus the King in Bulgaria. It studies the different strategies of translation that have been adopted by Bulgarian authors, when rendering the Greek word τύχη in contemporary Bulgarian language. In comparing the various translational versions of a short passage from the 3rd epeisodion, and having in mind the translators’ background and decisions, the paper argues that the instance of Oedipus the King is indicative of the productive power of translation. The comparison shows how displacements and shifting of meaning in the process of translation could bring about new, unexpected effects of meaning. This situation is also brought about by the specific way of reception of Ancient literature in Bulgaria, since not all of the translators have used the original in their work.

Egzegeza J 11,1-46 w ujęciu retoryki semickiej

Author(s): Dawid Kontny / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 24/2020

Kontekstem przeprowadzonych badań było stwierdzenie, że różni komentatorzy wskazują na inne struktury badanego tekstu. Celem badań było opracowanie struktury tekstu przy zastosowaniu metody naukowej. Posłużono się metodą retoryki hebrajskiej, którą opracował Roland Meynet. Uzyskano wynik, który wskazuje, że struktura badanego tekstu schematycznie wygląda następująco: A (11,1-19), B (11,20-32), A’ (11,33-46). Wyciągnięto wnioski, że badana treść oznacza znak, który objawia władzę nad śmiercią fizyczną, przekazuje także informację, iż wiara w Jezusa otwiera na dar życia wiecznego oraz zakłada uzdrowienie miłości, a także zmartwychwstanie ludzi jest możliwe za cenę śmierci i zmartwychwstania Jezusa.

UNKNOWN 19th CENTURY ATHONITE POEM ABOUT A QUARREL FOR LAND AND CHOLERA

Author(s): Cyril Pavlikianov / Language(s): English,Greek, Modern (1453-) Issue: 1/2021

The article analyses an Athonite poetical text which describes a conflict between the monasteries of Zographou and Chilandar over landed property situated inside the Holy Mountain. It refers to no place names, but pays special attention to the visit of a nameless Ottoman governor of Thessalonica, accompanied by the consuls of France, Russia and Austria, to Mount Athos. His intention was to solve the difference and to reconcile the two monasteries, but his efforts failed. He then granted a special document (ilam) to Zographou, and met an unnamed ex-patriarch of Constantinople in the monastery of Espigmenou. The authorized representatives of Zographou and Chilandar, Dositheos and Onouphrios, travelled to Constantinople in order to present the case to the sultan’s court, but during their stay in Istanbul cholera struck the city and the final decision was postponed until the end of the epidemy. Three Greek and two Turkish documents make it clear that Zographou and Chilandar were claiming the terrain of Giovantza on the northwest coast of Mount Athos as well as that the conflict was rather important for the two monasteries.

The Intertextual Use of Greek Mythology in Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction

Author(s): Tatiana V. Ternopol / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

This study investigates the intertextual use of Greek mythology in Agatha Christie’s short stories Philomel Cottage, The Face of Helen, and The Oracle at Delphi, a short story collection The Labours of Hercules, and a novel, Nemesis. The results of this research based on the hermeneutical and comparative methods reveal that A. Christie’s intertextual formula developed over time. In her early works, allusions were based on characters' appearances and functions as well as on the use of motifs and themes from Greek myths. Later on, she turned to using allusory character names; this would mislead her readers who thought they already knew the formula of her stories. Although not a postmodern writer, A. Christie enjoyed playing games of allusion with her readers. She wanted them not only to solve a case but also to discover and interpret the intertextual references.

“BEGIN AS YOU MEAN TO GO ON”: THE OPENING CHAPTERS OF THE PALAEA HISTORICA IN GREEK, SLAVONIC, AND ROMANIAN

Author(s): Mihail-George Hâncu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The aim of this paper is to provide a starting point for a comparison between the four edited versions of the Palaea Historica: the Greek one, the first Slavonic translation, the Romanian translation and the recently published second Slavonic translation. The four versions diverge from the very beginning, with the Greek and the first Slavonic translation providing a discussion on the Holy Trinity before moving on to God’s creation of the world, whereas the Romanian version omits the theological introduction and expands the cosmogonical portion with a paraphrase of Epiphanius’ Hexaemeron. The second Slavonic translation omits the entire description of the six days of creation in order to focus on Adam and the symbolic importance of his name. Another point of interest is the treatment of a fragment condemning the heretical view that Satan was Cain’s father, which is not conserved in the first Slavonic version and the Romanian versions.

Book review: Христакуди, Фотини. Проблеми на гръцкия литературен развой 1880-1930. (Етюди върху новогръцката поезия).

Author(s): Borislava Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Book review: Christakoudy, Fotiny. Problems of Greek Literary Development 1880-1930. (Studies on Modern Greek Poetry). Sofia, Ni plus, 2020, 255 p.]

Traduire la peur: une étude contrastive

Author(s): Effrosyni Lamprou,Freiderikos Valetopoulos / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2020

In this paper, we examine the question of the verbalization of fear and its translation from Modern Greek into French. The target texts of our analysis are of two types: translations of experienced translators and translations of Cypriot learners. We study data from the analysis of our translation corpus and we question the conceptualisation of the emotion of fear.

ЗА ДИВАТА И ПИТОМНАТА МАСЛИНА: БЪЛГАРИТЕ В ХРИСТИЯНСКАТА ОЙКУМЕНА СПОРЕД ВИЗАНТИЙСКОТО СЛОВО "ЗА МИРА С БЪЛГАРИТЕ”

Author(s): Kiril Marinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2022

The conclusion of the Byzantine-Bulgarian peace in 927, ending the long-lasting conflict of the Empire with the state of Simeon I the Great (893–927), gave an opportunity to a summarize the history of relations between both the states. An anonymous member of the Byzantine court of emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (920–944) prepared an oration on that occasion in which he characterized, e.g., the place of Bulgaria and the Bulgarians in Byzantine political and religious views. In the light of this speech, until the time of their official Christianization, the latter were miserable wagon-dwellers and nomads, deprived of their own land and wandering in the world without purpose or knowledge of God. The Byzantines, on the other hand, constituted the New Israel, the Chosen People of the New Covenant, hence Byzantine-Bulgarian mutual relations were marked by deep division and conflict. The situation changed radically with the reception of the Holy Baptism by the Bulgarians, because now united in one spiritual body of the Church, worshipping God together, both ‘nations’ flourished. The Byzantines then became the spiritual fathers and teachers of the Bulgarians in the faith. Any violation of God's order of family and brotherly relations, expressed in the rise of spiritual sons against their spiritual fathers, was considered as a sign of arrogance and impiety.

История и култура на Древна Гърция за студенти, изучаващи новогръцки език (Δημητριος Ι. Ρουμπος. Ιστορια και πολιτισμος της Ελλαδας…)

Author(s): Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

Историческа Тракия през призмата на етнолингвистиката (Η Ιστορικη Θρακη υπο το πρισμα τησ εθνογλωσσολογιασ…)

Author(s): Emilia Avginova-Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

Perspectives on the Construction of a Play: Ancient Greece and Ancient India

Author(s): Roxana-Cristina Ispas / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article compares the way a play was structured in ancient Greece and ancient India. The different types of actors that can appear during a play (heroes, heroines, companions, etc.) and the qualities they must have (both physically and morally), the types of plays, the length and their ultimate purpose.

DESPOT JOHN UGLJEŠA AND THE ATHONITE MONASTERY OF SIMONOPETRA

Author(s): Cyril Pavlikianov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The article scrutinizes the content of a chrysobull allegedly promulgated by the Serbian Despot of Serrhai, Jovan Uglješa (1360 – 1371), for the Athonite Monastery of Simonopetra. The original of this act is lost and its only surviving variant is a confirmed copy authenticated by the Constantinopolitan Patriarch Cyril I Loukaris in 1623. The patriarchal confirmative charter offers the reader a text presumably issued by John Uglješa 359 years earlier, i.e. 1264. Starting from this evident discrepancy, the article analyses the text of Loukaris’s corroborated copy and argues which elements of this counterfeit are plausible and could be accepted as genuine and which could not. For better understanding of the Greek original, the full text of Loukaris’s charter is diplomatically published at the end of the article.

Екатерина Дикова. Календарните двустишия на Христофор Митиленски и техните южнославянски преводи.

Author(s): Lora Taseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024