Anotace
The course aims to introduce the various and multiple impacts that the classical tradition had on European culture (within the realms of language, literature, religion, history, medicine, etc.)
Requirements for receiving course credit:
In order to receive credit for the course the student must attend class and submit a final paper (5 to 10 pages long) that deals with the course’s topics. 19.2. Dagmar Muchnová: Reflexes of Ancient Greek grammatical treatises in modern linguistic theory and terminology 26.2. Sorry, for technical reasons, no lectures. 5.3. Lucie Pultrová: The origins of the Latin alphabet 12.3. Sylva Fischerová: Hippocratic Oath in the history of Europe 19.3. Ján Bakyta: The decline and fall of the Roman empire and modern ideologies 26.3. Francesca Battista: Reception of Ovid’s Ars amatoria in the 12th century 2.4. Jan Kalivoda: Habent sua fata libelli: the fate of renowned manuscripts of classical authors 9.4. Riccardo Burgazzi: HISTRIO: between theater and oral tradition. From Plautus to the medieval jugglers, until Dario Fo 16.4. Lucie Doležalová: Reception of the ancient art of memory in medieval and early modern Europe 23.4. Ivan Prchlík: Early Christianity in the Marxist interpretation 30.4. Pavlína Šípová: Ancient Greeks in modern Greek folk manner 7.5. Dita Vořechovská: Greek dialects in the course of time. The tradition of their use in ancient, medieval and modern Greek literature 14.5. Kostas Tsivos: Graeco-Czech relations from Middle Ages until today