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The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predecessors in this field in France and the German-speaking culture. The book describes scholarly rivalry between nations in search of their own visions of antiquity. Methodologically, the book develops the vein of classical reception studies. The key figures of this study are Adam Mickiewicz, Joachim Lelewel, and Gottfried Ernst Groddeck.

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Scholar of literature and intellectual history. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan´. Junkiert focuses on nineteenth-century evolution of historical-literary research, literary reception of the French Revolution, and Polish literature as Weltliteratur. Author of two books, editor of nine collective volumes, and dozens of articles published in Poland, Germany, France, Greece, and the United Kingdom.

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