Solon’s elegy in the Chronicon regum Poloniae of Erasmus Gliczner from Żnin Cover Image

Elegia Solona w „Chronicon regum Poloniae” Erazma Glicznera ze Żnina
Solon’s elegy in the Chronicon regum Poloniae of Erasmus Gliczner from Żnin

Author(s): Ignacy Lewandowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Erazm Gliczner; Solon’s elegy; Latin translations; antiquity in Polish literature

Summary/Abstract: In this commemorative article, the author presents the Latin translation of one of Solon’s elegies (27W) which was placed in Chronicon regum Poloniae (from Lech until Mieszko I), a 16th-century chronicle by Gliczner, who was a theologian and pedagogue born in Żnin. In addition, mentions of the Polish studies and contemporary translations of that elegy were made, and based on the Latin translation, a Polish translation was produced in prose poetry.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 129-140
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish