The most important scientific outputs of the Centre of Classical Studies staff

The most important outputs of the Centre for Classical Studies staff, which contribute to the increase of knowledge in the relevant disciplines on the international level and to the enrichment and cultivation of Czech cultural sphere, consist mainly of scholarly publications: monographs, editions, translations of ancient, medieval and Neo-Latin texts, and studies published in prestigious Czech and foreign journals and publishing houses (e.g. Brepols; Brill; De Gruyter; Propylaeum; journals include e.g. Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi; Artibus et Historiae; Classical Receptions Journal; Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch; Moreana; Wiener Studien etc.).

During the last five years (2020–2024), the staff of the Centre for Classical Studies published nearly 250 scientific outputs, out of which 35 were scholarly books, approx. 80 book chapters  and more than 70 articles in scholarly domestic and foreign journals; other publication outputs included scholarly reviews, translations etc. The Centre also organized more than 10 domestic and international conferences, workshops or summer schools. The complete output of the Centre for Classical Studies staff is recorded in the ASEP database and in the bibliographies of individual researchers on their personal web pages. The presentation in English, which introduces the Centre and its research outputs in the years 2015-2019, is to be found here.

As regards the most important publications from the last five years (2020–2024), the following may be mentioned (in alphabetical order).

Selected books, book chapters and articles published abroad

Bažant, Jan, Children on Choes, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2024, 186 pp., ISBN 978-3-96929-347-8.

Bažant, Jan, Myth of Perseus and Images. From the Beginning to Today, Heidelberg: Propylaeum 2023, 262 pp. ISBN 978-3-96929-221-1

Cielontko, David, „The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Huqoq Synagogue. A Reappraisal of the Maccabean Interpretation“, in: Fialová, Radka – Hoblík, Jiří – Kitzler, Petr (eds.), Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas, Berlin – Boston: Walter De Gruyter 2023 (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 155), pp. 179–204.

Cielontko, David, „On the Origin of the Archdemon Beelzebul/Beelzebub“, Biblica 102/1, 2021, pp. 68–77.

Čadková, Daniela. „Mythological Heroes on Czech Stages and Politics: The Case of Phaethon and Antigone“, in: Classical Receptions Journal 15/2, 2023, pp. 172–189.

Čechvala, Jakub, „Appropriation through Gaps. Czech Reception of Greek Tragedy in the 19th and the Early 20th Century“, in: Sarkissian, Alena – Marshall, Hallie – Kubartová, Eliška (eds.), Re-embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times, Leiden: Brill 2025 (Metaforms, 27), pp. 3–25.

Černá, Julie, "Names of Diseases of Greek Origin in the Lexicographical Writings of Master Claretus", in: C. Ratkowitsch (ed.), Medialatinitas. Ausgewählte Beiträge zum 8. Internationalen Mittellateinerkongress Wien, 17.-21.9.2017, in: Wiener Studien, Beiheft 40, 2020, pp. 265–278.

Fialová, Radka – Hoblík, Jiří – Kitzler, Petr (eds.), Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas, Berlin – Boston: Walter De Gruyter 2023 (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 155) 243 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-079507-3. 

Florianová, Hana, "Utiliora et meliora artis medicinae - Die Rezeption des Canon medicinae von Avicenna in einem medizinischen Text aus dem 14. Jahrhundert und seine Abschriften in europäischen Bibliotheken", in: Scriptorium, 73, 2019, pp. 251–280.

Förster, Josef, „Melodrama Heroica in adversis constantia Thomae Mori as an Example of Olomouc Jesuit Sodality Theatre Production in the Context of the Holy Week“, in: Moreana, 2024, pp. 192–208.

Förster, Josef, „Translation despite stereotypes. On the first poetic translation of Seneca’s tragedies into German“, in: Wiener Studien. Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition 135/2022, pp. 225–253.

Franek, Juraj, „,Seal of Solomon‘ on a Bilingual defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia)“, in: Fialová, Radka – Hoblík, Jiří – Kitzler, Petr (eds.), Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas, Berlin – Boston: Walter De Gruyter 2023 (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 155), pp. 205–222.

Kitzler, Petr, „Tertullian's Paradise“, in: Lampe, Peter  –  Mader, Heidrun E. (eds.), "Montanism" in the Roman World. The New Prophecy Movement from Historical, Sociological, and Ecclesiological Perspectives. Festschrift for William Tabbernee on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2024 (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments, 132), pp. 109–120.

Kocánová, Barbora, "Was Weather Forecasting Studied in the Medieval Czech Lands? Notes on the Codicological Evidence", in: O. Pavlíček (ed.), Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp. 235–250.

Kocánová, Barbora, "Weather Forecasting: Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World", in: M. Heiduk – K. Herbers – H.-Ch. Lehner (eds.), Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 651–664.

Kubartová (Poláčková), Eliška, Medieval Laments of the Virgin Mary. Text, Music, Performance, and Genre Liminality, Leeds: ARC Humanities Press 2023, 239 pp. ISBN 978-1-64189-456-2.

Novotný, Matěj - Kocánová, Barbora - Müller, Miloslav, "‘Meteorology’ and ‘meteors’ across centuries: a short history of two problematic terms", in: Classical Receptions Journal 15/3, 2023, pp. 271–297.

Nývlt, Pavel, "Claretus and the City: The Glossarius, Its Latin Neologisms and Its Reception in Municipal Administrative Texts", in: Trends in Classics,15/1, 2023, pp. 131–164.

Sarkissian, Alena – Marshall, Hallie – Kubartová, Eliška (eds.), Re-embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times, Leiden: Brill 2025 (Metaforms, 27), 352 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-69528-3.

Sarkissian, Alena, „Theatre as a Place of Spiritual Contemplation. Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during Nazi Occupation (1939–1945)“, in: Sarkissian, Alena – Marshall, Hallie – Kubartová, Eliška (eds.), Re-embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times, Leiden: Brill 2025 (Metaforms, 27), pp. 26–54. 

Sarkissian, Alena, „The ,Advent of the New Rule‘: An Oresteia (1947) in Prague and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia“, in: Bakogianni Anastasia – Gómez, Luis Unceta (eds.), Classical Reception: New Challenges in a Changing World, Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2024, pp. 87–118.

Silagiová, Zuzana – Nývlt, Pavel – Černá, Julie – Florianová, Hana – Kocánová, Barbora – Šedinová, Hana – Vršecká, Kateřina, Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum - Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích. Volume 3: I-M, second, revised edition, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021 (part of the Database of Latin Dictionaries).

Silagiová, Zuzana, "(Un)erwünschte Bräuche oder koleda und pomlázka", in: Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi (Bulletin du Cange), 79, 2021, pp. 111–133.

Šedinová, Hana, "Vis nominis, vis textus, vis imaginis. Gli esseri marini denominati in base agli animali terrestri nelle opere di Tommaso di Cantimpré e di Paulerinus", in: Artibus et Historiae, 82 (XLI), 2020, pp. 75–103.

Šedinová, Hana, "Ut dicit Aristoteles: The Enigmatic Names of Animals in Michael Scot, Thomas of Cantimpré and Claret", in: O. Pavlíček (ed.), Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp. 49–70.

Šedinová, Hana, "A parte ficta totum fictum: Fanciful Illustrations of Sea Animals in the Liber de natura rerum and Other Medieval Encyclopedias", in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 85/I, 2022, pp. 13–39.

Šedinová, Hana, "A Scavenging Beast of Prey or a Harmless Reptile? The lacta as a Puzzling Problem of Animal Classification in the Encyclopedia of Thomas of Cantimpré", in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch. Internationale Zeitschrift für Mediävistik und Humanismusforschung, 58/2, 2023, pp. 204–255.

Vaculínová, Marta, „Johann Clingerius, S.J., and his Technopaegnion poeticum“, in: Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 25, 2023, pp. 195–228.

Vaculínová, Marta, „The Neo-Latin Epic in the Czech Lands before 1620“, in: Listy filologické 146, 2023, pp. 111–148.

Vaculínová, Marta - Storchová, Lucie - Slavíková, Marcela - Neškudla, Bořek - Podavka Ondřej - Králová, Magda, Bohemian Editors and Translators at the Turn of the 16th Century, Bohemia and Moravia III., Europa humanistica 22, Brepols: Turnhout 2021.

Selected books published in Czech publishing houses

Bažant, Jan, Božská nahota. Sochy Venuše od počátku do dneška [Divine nakedness. Statues of Venus from the beginning up today], Praha: Academia 2023, 372 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-3311-6. 

Bažant, Jan, Antika po česku: odezvy v umění 19. a 20. století [Antiquity in the Czech way: reception in 19th-20th century art], Praha: Academia 2021 (together with R. Prahl), 207 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-3293-5.

Čadková, Daniela, Oslněni hellénským sluncem: Recepce antiky v české literatuře 1880–1914 [Dazzled by the Hellenic Sun: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Czech Literature in 1880–1914], Praha: Filosofia 2020, 386 pp. ISBN 978-80-7007-644-6.

Dus, Jan A., List Judův, Druhý list Petrův [The Epistle of Jude, The Second Epistle of Peter], Praha: Centrum biblických studií AV ČR a UK v Praze ve spolupráci s Českou biblickou společností 2023 (Český ekumenický komentář k Novému zákonu, 20), 275 pp., ISBN 978-80-7545-115-6.

Hoblík, Jiří – Fialová, Radka (eds.), Helénismus, raný judaismus a rané křesťanství. Kapitoly z encyklopedie [Hellenism, early Judaism, and early Christianity. Chapters from the Encyclopedia], Praha: Filosofia, 2023, 700 pp., ISBN 978-80-7007-761-0.

Förster, Josef  – Hádek, Karel – Jakubcová, Lucie – Pelc, Vojtěch – Podavka, Ondřej –  Polakovič, Daniel – Pumprla, Václav – Svatoš, Martin – Vaculínová, Marta – Žůrek, Jiří (eds.), Johann Peter Cerroni. Spisovatelé Království českého, díl IV: G [Johann Peter Cerroni. Writers of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Vol. 4, G]. Praha: Filosofia 2024. 

Kitzler, Petr, Tertullianus, O duši (latinsko-české vydání) [Tertullian. On the Soul. Introductory study, Czech translation and commentary], Praha: Filosofický ústav AV ČR – OIKOYMENH 2023 (Knihovna raně křesťanské tradice, 32), 485 pp., ISBN 978-80-7298-623-1.

Kocánová, Barbora, Meteorologie a předpovídání počasí ve vzdělanosti středověkých Čech a Moravy [Meteorology and Weather Forecasting in the Learning in Medieval Bohemia and Moravia], Praha: Academia 2024, 310pp. ISBN: 978-80-200-3534-9.

Silagiová, Zuzana – Černá, Julie – Florianová, Hana – Kocánová, Barbora – Martínková, Dana – Nývlt, Pavel – Smetanová, Zuzana – Šedinová, Hana – Vršecká, Kateřina, Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum – Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích, sešit 24 [Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands: Volume 24], Praha: Academia 2024, 143 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-3462-5.

Vaculínová, Marta – Šárovcová, Martina – Nachtmannová, Alena, Portréty předbělohorských intelektuálů [Portraits of Intellectuals between 1516 and 1620], Praha: Academia 2022. ISBN 978-80-200-3245-4.

Vršecká, Kateřina, Scénická poznámka středověkého chrámového dramatu [The Stage Direction of Medieval Church Drama], Praha: Academia, 2024, 454 pp. ISBN: 978-80-200-3521-9.