Zara Martirosova Torlone is Professor in the Department of Classics at Miami University, USA. She is the author of Russia and the Classics (2009) and Vergil in Russia (2015), editor of Classical Reception in Eastern Europe (a special issue of Classical Receptions Journal), and co-editor of Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (with Stephen Norris, 2008). She has written numerous articles concerning classical literature and its reception, especially in Russian culture.

Dana LaCourse Munteanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, Newark, USA. She is the author of Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy (2012) and the editor of Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity (2011). She has written several articles on Greek philosophy, tragedy and the reception.

Dorota Dutsch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the author of Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices (2008), and co‐editor of Women in the Drama of the Roman Republic (with David Konstan and Sharon James, 2015), Ancient Obscenities (with Ann Suter, 2015), and The Fall of the City in the Mediterranean (with Ann Suter and Mary Bachvarova, 2016).

* A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English?]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally.
* The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe
* Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise
* Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas
* Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture
* Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity

List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch
Part I Croatia 13
Neven Jovanovic
1 Classical Reception in Croatia: An Introduction 15
Neven Jovanovic
2 Pula and Split: The Early Modern Tale(s) of Two Ancient Cities 21
Jasenka Gudelj
3 Croatian Neo-Latin Literature and Its Uses 35
Neven Jovanovic
4 The First Dalmatian Humanists and the Classics: A Manuscript Perspective 46
Luka Spoljaric
5 The Swan Song of the Latin Homer 57
Petra Sostaric
Part II Slovenia 67
Marko Marincic
6 Classical Reception in Slovenia: An Introduction 69
Marko Marincic
7 Collecting Roman Inscriptions Beyond the Alps: Augustinus Tyfernus 74
Marjeta Sasel Kos
8 Sta. Maria sopra Siwa: Inventing a Slavic Venus 88
Marko Marincic
9 Images from Slovenian Dramatic and Theatrical Interpretations of Ancient Drama 99
Andreja N. Inkret
Part III Czech Republic 113
Jan Ba?ant
10 Classical Reception in the Czech Republic: An Introduction 115
Jan Ba?ant
11 Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature between the National Revival and the Avant-Garde 121
Daniela Cadkova
12 The Classical Tradition and Nationalism: The Art and Architecture of Prague, 1860-1900 133
Jan Ba?ant
13 The Case of the Oresteia: Classical Drama on the Czech Stage, 1889-2012 146
Alena Sarkissian
Part IV Poland 159
Dorota Dutsch
14 Classical Reception in Poland: An Introduction 161
Dorota Dutsch
15 From Fictitious Letters to Celestial Revolutions: Copernicus and the Classics 166
Dorota Dutsch and Francois Zdanowicz
16 Respublica and the Language of Freedom: The Polish Experiment 179
Anna Grzesk owiak-Krwawicz
17 Two Essays on Classical Reception in Poland 190
Jerzy Axer
18 Parallels between Greece and Poland in Juliusz SBowacki's Oeuvre 207
Maria Kalinowska
Part V Hungary 223
Farkas Gabor Kiss
19 Classical Reception in Hungary: An Introduction 225
Farkas Gabor Kiss
20 Classical Reception in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Drama 233
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby
21 Truditur dies die: Reading Horace as a Political Attitude in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hungary 245
Abel Tamas
22 The Shepherdess and the Myrmillo: The Sculptor Istvan Ferenczy and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Hungary 260
Nora Veszpremi
Part VI Romania 277
Dana LaCourse Munteanu
23 Classical Reception in Romania: An Introduction 279
Radu Ardevan, Florin Berindeanu, and Ioan Piso
24 Loving Vergil, Hating Rome: Cos'buc as Translator and Poet 287
Carmen Fenechiu and Dana LaCourse Munteanu
25 Noica's Becoming within Being and Meno's Paradox 300
Octavian Gabor
26 Reception of the Tropaeum Traiani: Former Paths and Future Directions 312
Allison L.C. Emmerson
Part VII Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro 327
Nada Zecevic
27 Classical Reception in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro: An Introduction 329
Nada Zecevic and Nenad Ristovic
28 Classical Antiquity in the Franciscan Historiography of Bosnia (Eighteenth Century) 336
Nada Zecevic
29 Innovative Impact of the Classical Tradition on Early Modern Serbian Literature 347
Nenad Ristovic
30 Classical Heritage in Serbian Lyric Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Jovan Ducic, Milos Crnjanski, and Ivan V. Lalic 360
Ana Petkovic
31 The Ancient Sources of Njegos's Poetics 373
Darko Todorovic
Part VIII Bulgaria 387
Yoana Sirakova
32 Classical Reception in Bulgaria: An Introduction 389
Yoana Sirakova
33 Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity: A Melting Pot of Thracian, Greek, and Roman Culture 396
Mirena Slavova
34 In the Labyrinth of Allusions: Ancient Figures in Bulgarian Prose Fiction 411
Violeta Gerjikova
35 "Bulgarian" Orpheus between the National and the Foreign, between Antiquity and Postmodernism 423
Yoana Sirakova
36 Staging of Ancient Tragedies in Bulgaria and Their Influence on the Process of Translation and Creative Reception 437
Dorothea Tabakova
Part IX Russia 449
Judith E. Kalb
37 Classical Reception in Russia: An Introduction 451
Judith E. Kalb
38 "Men in Cases": The Perception of Classical Schools in Prerevolutionary Russia 457
Grigory Starikovsky
39 Homer in Russia 469
Judith E. Kalb
40 Vergil in Russia: Milestones of Identity 480
Zara Martirosova Torlone
41 Russian Encounters with Classical Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and National Identity in the Tsarist Empire 493
Caspar Meyer
Part X Armenia and Georgia 507
Zara Martirosova Torlone
42 Armenian Culture and Classical Antiquity 509
Armen Kazaryan and Gohar Muradyan
43 Medieval Greek-Armenian Literary Relations 516
Gohar Muradyan
44 The "Classical" Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani: The Greco-Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art 528
Armen Kazaryan
45 Classical Reception in Georgia: An Introduction 541
Ketevan Gurchiani
46 Greek Tragedy on the Georgian Stage in the Twentieth Century 548
Ketevan Gurchiani
Index 560