Gli aspetti metaforici e storici della peste nella letteratura greca antica: Omero, Sofocle, Tucidide

Jadwiga Czerwińska

doi:10.18778/8220-877-1

Gli aspetti metaforici e storici della peste nella letteratura greca antica: Omero, Sofocle, Tucidide

Jadwiga Czerwińska

Università di Łódź

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-5806 (unauthenticated)

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L’art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches littéraires. Le 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź

Pages: 29-44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-877-1.02

Keywords: L’art de vivre, L’art de survivre, L’art de revivre, Philologie Romane de Łódź, pandémie, histoire de la littérature

Published: 23 August 2022

Categories: Foreign language studies, Literary Studies, Open Access

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The plague as a terrifying phenomenon affecting people has been a constant topos
in literature since antiquity. Its nature and the mysterious way in which it appeared
attracted the attention and imagination of poets, who explained it as a punishment sent
by the gods for the failings of people who broke the divine commandments and norms.
This is how it was depicted by Homer, followed by the tragedians. However, we owe one
of the most poignant images of this disease to Thucydides, the Greek historian of the 5th
century BC. He created a faithful and at the same time shocking description of it, because it
exposed the most shameful aspects of anthopeia physis, human nature. The signalled issues
will become the subject of description in this article.

Jadwiga Czerwińska, Università di Łódź

– professore ordinario dell’Università di Łódź, Polonia, Direttore generale
del periodico scientifico Collectanea Philologica, membro del Comitato delle scienze
della cultura antica della PAN, della Classical Association ed altri. I suoi interessi di ricerca
includono il teatro ed il dramma greco, la filosofia greca e la ricezione della cultura antica
soprattutto all’interno della cultura italiana. È autrice delle monografie: Człowiek Eurypidesa;
Anthropeia physis come dramatis persona in Euripide; Innowacje mitologiczne i dramaturgiczne
Eurypidesa; è coautrice del tomo Starożytny teatr i dramat w świetle pism scholiastów.

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Czerwińska, J. (2022). Gli aspetti metaforici e storici della peste nella letteratura greca antica: Omero, Sofocle, Tucidide. In M. Koźluk & A. Staroń (Eds.), L’art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches littéraires. Le 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź (pp. 29-44). Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8220-877-1.02