Redness as Perceived through the Eyes of the Romans

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.24.05

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antyczny Rzym, kolory, czerwień, terminologia

Abstrakt

The article is an attempt to revise the long-established belief in the alabaster-white exterior shape of Roman antiquity, which in fact turns out to be full of colours that bring life to its image. The authors implement this intention by indicating how intensely the colour red was present in the reality described by classical Latin authors – contrary to the accusation that one of the participants of the discussion on this subject in Aulus Gellius’ Attic Nights (Gell. Noc. Att. 2.26) makes of the alleged poverty regarding various shades of red in Latin terminology. The material presented contradicts the opinion expressed in Gellius’ text, and at the same time makes us realise how colourful and lively the world that emerges from the literary works of the classical Roman period was. In comparison with it, the reality witnessed by the literature of the Christian era – this parallel is what the authors of the article focus on, concluding their deliberations – in which red becomes almost exclusively a sign of shame, turns out to be ascetically sterile and depressingly colourless.

Biogramy autorów

  • Marta Czapińska-Bambara - Uniwersytet Łódzki

    dr Marta Czapińska-Bambara (Uniwersytet Łódzki) – Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Lodz at the Department of Latin Studies and Linguistics. She received her mastersʼ degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Classics and defended her PhD thesis in Classical Philology. Her research focuses mainly on the Latin literature and the reception of selected political, rhetorical and philosophical concepts of ancient authors in Renaissance thought. She is the author of a monograph Èthos przywódcy politycznego w myśli starożytnej i renesansowej. Platon, Cyceron, Machiavelli, Guicciardini.

  • Zbigniew Danek - Uniwersytet Łódzki

    dr hab. Zbigniew Danek prof. UŁ (Uniwersytet Łódzki) – Professor of Classics and, since 2003, the head of the Department of Latin Studies and Linguistics at the University of Lodz. He defended his PhD thesis on the Platonic dialogue Cratylus in 1987 and obtained his post-Doctoral degree in 2000 on the basis of a dissertation on the gnoseological problems of the Platonic dialogue Thaeetetus. His current research focuses mainly on the problems of epicurean anthropology, as well as on Platonic concepts concerning the gnoseological status of linguistic structures and the rational and metaphysical cognition of reality.

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Czapińska-Bambara, Marta, and Zbigniew Danek. 2021. “Redness As Perceived through the Eyes of the Romans”. Collectanea Philologica, no. 24 (December): 87-100. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.24.05.
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