The volume contains essays on ancient Greek literature, philosophy and history and their reception in the West and in Russia; essays on Alexei Losev's work and its translations into English.

The volume is a tribute to Aza Alibekovna Takho-Godi by the former students, colleagues, and friends to commemorate her 100th birthday. It contains biographical essays on Aza Alibekovna; essays on ancient Greek literature; ancient Greek philosophy; ancient Greek history; Byzantium; the reception of ancient philosophy in the medieval West; ancient motifs in German Romanticism and Russian philosophy and theology; the reception of Classical literature in Russia; postmodern approaches to Classical themes. There are also essays on Alexei Losev; his epistolary exchanges with Western scholars; Neoplatonism in his history of philosophy; the concepts of time and symbol; studies of the Renaissance; and the challenge of translating Losev's early philosophical works into English.

Autorentext

Oleg Bychkov is professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University, New York, U.S.A.
Henrieke Stahl is professor for Slavic literatures at the University of Trier.
Elena Takho-Godi is professor for Russian literature at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Inhalt

Nadezhda . MALINAUSKENE Live and Learn - Aza TAKHO-GODI Myth as the Real and the Imaginary in Plato's Philosophy -
' ': . . - ( ) - : Sappho Fr.1 - ? - Yury SHICHALIN Whether the Image of Socrates-Pythagorean was Plato's Invention? - Yana ZABUDSKAYA Reception of Tragedy as a Part of Dramatic Plotting in Old Comedy - - - . ? -

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  ' ' . . - Oleg V. BYCHKOV Ancient Sources of the Debate about the Nature of Phenomenal Reality in Fourteenth-century Franciscan Circles - -
• Eugène TERNOVSKY Pavel Florensky, lecteur de Flaubert. Le saint Antoine de l'oeuvre et celui de la tradition de l'Église - Victor VIZGUINE
  Réception de la philosophie de Gabriel Marcel en Russie - Edith W. CLOWES The Black Sea as Multicultural Text -
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  . . ' ' ' ' ' ( . ' ) - - l'uomo universale
  ? - Petr REZVYKH Der Briefwechsel zwischen Aleksej Losev und Bruno Snell
  (1959 - 1960) - Annett JUBARA Weltbild. Ein neuplatonisches Konzept und sein Erklärungspotential für Aleksej Losevs Geschichte der antiken Philosophie
• Giorgia RIMONDI La concezione del tempo nella filosofia della storia loseviana - Holger KUßE Baum und Schrank. Die Semantik der Dinge bei A. F. Losev - Teresa OBOLEVITCH Symbol in Ernst Cassirer's and Aleksei Losev's Thought - . . - B .
• . . - Vladimir L. MARCHENKOV
  Books and Destinies: Translating Losev's Prose - Maryse DENNES Une décennie de coopération entre la Maison A. F. Losev de Moscou et la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine - -