„Odprawa posłów greckich” a Lykofron
Odprawa posłów greckich” (“Dismissal of the Greek Envoys”) and Lyco¬phron

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the relationships between Jan Kochanowski’s Renaissance tragedy “Odprawa posłów greckich” (“Dismissal of the Greek Envoys”) and a Hellenistic poem “Aleksandra” (“Alexandra”) by Lycophron. To a set of arguments for such connections presented in 1884 by Józef Kallenbach, the authors of the paper add a few more that relate to the terms used by Kochanowski and to the form of the two texts. They also explain the philological riddle: the reason why the ship of Paris that conveys Helen is called in the Polish tragedy “a beech boat.”

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