Books by Lech Trzcionkowski
Plutarch, Żywoty równoległe, t. 1. Tezeusz, Romulus, Likurg, Numa, wstęp i przekład K. Korus, komentarz i przypisy L. Trzcionkowski, K. Korus, wyd. Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2005
Papers by Lech Trzcionkowski
Roczniki Humanistyczne, 2000
The article is devoted to the problem of the connection between the feast of women gathered in th... more The article is devoted to the problem of the connection between the feast of women gathered in the Demeter Thesmophoria shrine on Cape Kolias (deme Halimous) and the celebrations of Thesmophoria in Athens. The starting point for the author is Plutarch's story (Vita Solonis 8, 4-6) that today is considered to be the proof of the tenth day of the month Pyanopsion rites which were part of the Athenian Thesmophoria. On that day women were supposed to go to the seaside sanctuary and then to move to the Demeter temenos in the center of Athens. The local feast was to be included in the state celebrations, but the problematic verse 80 of Aristophanes' Women at Thesmaphoria was thought to be a trace of its original separateness. A careful analysis of Plutarch and the tradition on which he is dependent (Polyainos) shows that the feast on Cape Kolias is not the same as the Thesmophoria. Numerous researchers compare Plutarch's accounts with the tradition of seizing the Megarians who conducted a plundering raid whose purpose was to abduct the women who had gathered at Thesmaphoria (Aeneas Tacticus, 4.8-12). Most of them think that it is the same tradition that was later divided in two. Differences between the accounts show that these are separate traditions dealing with different events. The stories are about different leaders (Solon in Halimous, Pisistratus in Eleusis). The course of the rites and their role in the related account differ from the ritual scenario in the shrine on Cape Kolias. In Eleusis the women probably remained in the sacred circle during the rites, and anyway they did not take part in the events. Hence there is no motif of young men putting on women's clothes with hidden daggers and of the dance on the sea-shore that is strongly emphasized in the tradition concerning Solon's ruse (apate) in Halimous. A lot points to the initiation scenario being at the root of Plutarch and Polyainos' story, A change in the status is also seen in the ritual behavior: choirs
Przegląd Historyczny Dwumiesiecznik Naukowy, 2010
Fragments, holes and wholes : reconstructing the ancient world in the theory and practice, ed. Derda Tomasz, Hilder Jennifer, Kwapisz Jan, Warsaw: The Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2017. - p. 251-272 , 2017
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greece. Proceedings of the First International Workshops in Kraków (12-14. 11. 2015), ed. Krzysztof Bielawski, Sub Lupa, Warsaw , 2017
Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity. Religious and Philosophical Interactions, ed. by Mark Edwards and Eleni Pachoumi (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018
[w:] Antropologia antyku greckiego, oprac. W. Lengauer, L. Trzcionkowski, Warszawa 2011, s. 15 - 35, 2011
Starożytny dramat. Teoria. Praktyka. Recepcja, (red.) Krzysztof Narecki, Lublin 2011, s. 57 - 68, 2011
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Books by Lech Trzcionkowski
Papers by Lech Trzcionkowski
An integration of philology, history, and the scientific approaches to religion (tribute to Walter Burkert):
• Contribution of philology to understanding of religious phenomena (classical philology, Biblical studies, Oriental Studies);
• Language as a source of data for the study of religion;
• "From biological programs to semantic chains": ways of explaining or understanding myths and rituals (historical, anthropological and cognitive perspectives);
• Anthropology of sacrifice (texts, images and theories);
• Anthropology of mysticism and mystery cults;
• Religion and power: rituals of submission, movements of disobedience;
• Relationship between religion and morality in cultural evolution from antiquity to the present day;
• Nomothetic/idiographic controversy and the academic study of religion;
• Quality and quantity in the methodology of scientific studies of religion.
The cognitive study of religion, evolutionary psychology, and sociobiology; new tracks in the landscape:
• Understanding in the cognitive study of religions: the researcher's mind vs religious representations;
• A body in the field: sensorimotor experience as a hermeneutical tool in anthropological research;
• Understanding and explaining the human propensity to sacrifice one's life for genetic strangers;
• Cognitive studies of religion and the problem of reductionism;
• Religion and the theory of the levels of integration (strata ontologies, religion as emergent quality);
• Cybernetics and system theory as integrative paradigm for the studies of religion.