Series:Akme. Studia historica

Notatki lwowskie 1944-1946

Author(s): Ryszard Gansiniec / Language(s): Polish

The notes were taken in Lviv by Ryszard Gansiniec, a classics professor at Jan Kazimierz University and at the Soviet Ivan Franko Lviv State University from July 1944 to June 1946, when the scholar left the city for good. It is a unique source material concerning everyday life in the city at the end of the Polish period in Lviv and the fate of Polish intelligentsia after the end of the Second World War. It is the second, enlarged and supplemented edition of the book, first published in 1995.

Nowy adres Wrocław 1946-1948. Korespondencja Ryszarda i Zofii Gansińców

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The publication contains voluminous correspondence from the years 1946−1948 between professor Ryszard Gansiniec and his wife, Zofia Gansiniec, who was at the start of her academic career in post-war Poland. The book contains numerous letters, which professor Gansiniec and his wife received in Wrocław from their friends, acquaintances, former and present colleagues and former students.

Schole

Czas wolny w Sparcie epoki klasycznej

Author(s): Sebastian Rajewicz / Language(s): Polish

In collective memory, the image of Sparta is that of a military encampment. In a world where the citizens devoted their lives to war and other needs of the state, there was no place for leisure. The author calls into question this mythologised perception, adopting a new perspective: instead of focusing, following the ancient authors, on the state and its needs, he pays special attention to the private sphere, which is more befitting for a reflection on the titular schole. He demonstrates that the life of Spartans might have resembled life in a military camp only during the period of the famed state education. Once the education was complete, the citizens had abundant leisure time to engage in various activities, including: family life, extramarital unions, pederasty, entertainment during feasts, sport, hunting, and horse and hound breeding.