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An interview with Professor Włodzimierz Lengauer, a widely acclaimed expert on ancient Greek history and religion, in which he talks about his studies and the development of his scholarly interests.

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Włodzimierz Lengauer
Andrzej Gillmeister
Adrian Szopa
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A metrical analysis of dodecasyllables used by Cassia (ninth century) and her contemporary poets.

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Katarzyna Warcaba
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The article analyses some troparia of Cassia, a nun and poetess living in the ninth century in Constantinople. Her hymns, sung during the early mornin and evening church services, provide examples of saints – anchorites, ascetics and converted harlots. The examples, described in a poetic way, show the way to sanctity by conversion, repentance, and piety, at times bordering on madness. Remarkably, Cassia dedicated a number of her songs to women, underlining their role in human salvation.

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Agnieszka Heszen
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The article is devoted to passages in Isocrates’ works in which he presents his self-image that he wishes to impress on the minds of the public.

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Zbigniew Danek
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An annotated Polish version of selected poems from books XIII (Xenia) and XIV (Apophoreta) of Martial’s Epigrams.

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Agata Łuka
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The article proves that Kochanowski’s Latin version of Sappho 1 Lobel-Page was based on Henri Estienne’s edition of Anacreontics with fragments of Sappho and Alcaeus, published in Paris in 1556. Any future commentary on the Latin poem must take this fact into account.

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Robert A. Sucharski
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A Polish translation by Agnieszka Heszen of selected hymns in honour of various saints, ascribed to Cassia, the ninth-century Byzantine abbess.

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Kasja Zakonnica
Agnieszka Heszen (przeł. z j. greckiego)
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A Polish translation by Łukasz Libowski of Catullus’ poem 33 (O furum optime balnerariorum…).

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Katullus
Łukasz Libowski (przeł. z j. łacińskiego)
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When the Second World War ended, Stefan Srebrny (1890–1962), a distinguished Polish classicist, authority on ancient theatre, producer and translator, having already translated all seven extant Aeschylus’ tragedies into Polish, started his long and tedious correspondence with the State Publishing Institute (PIW) about the publication of the volume, which appeared in print only in 1952. The present article discusses that correspondence, preserved at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń.

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Barbara Bibik
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The article presents the results of a poll conducted among high school Latin teachers in Warsaw in the years 2009–2016, when teaching of Latin was drastically reduced. The poll concerned the students’ attitudes towards Latin and their correlation to the intellectual climate in their families.

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Dorota Samsonowicz-Kaczmarek
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An annotated Polish translation of the famous hieroglyphic inscription from the stele erected by Ptolemy in 311 BC, five years before he assumed the title of King of Egypt.

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Agnieszka Wojciechowska
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The article is an analysis of the text of Agathias describing the Neoplatonic philosophers residing at Xusrō I Anōšīrvān’s court in the context of the knowledge of Iranian customs among the inhabitants of the Byzantine Empire and the cultural differences between the two great powers of Late Antiquity.

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Katarzyna Maksymiuk
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A review of Kazimierz Pawłowski’s book Alkinous i średni platonizm. Pragnienie wejrzenia poza to, co widzialne (Alcinous and Middle Platonism. An Effort to Direct One’s Gaze beyond What Is Visible).

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Jerzy Wojtczak-Szyszkowski
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A review of Małgorzata Wróbel’s translation of the first book of the Bibliotheca historica, devoted to Egypt.

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Filip Taterka
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A review of Jacob Howland’s book Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic.

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Dorota Zygmuntowicz
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A review of Kazimierz Pawłowski’s Polish translation of four biographies of Plato: Apuleius’ De Platone et eius doctrina, Olympiodorus’ introduc-tion to his commentary on Alcibiades I, an anonymous Vita and the philosopher’s biography in Diogenes Laertius’ book III.

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Jerzy Wojtczak-Szyszkowski
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Filip Taterka responds to Marcin Janus’s critical remarks contained in his review, printed in “Meander” in 2018.

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Filip Taterka
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Jan Klata’s production of the Euripidean tragedy The Trojan Women (Wybrzeże Theatre, Gdańsk, 2018) is described from the perspective of a classicist and theatrologist that helped the director to adapt the ancient play.

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Olga Śmiechowicz
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A review of Poggio Bracciolini’s Facetiarum liber in Inga Grześczak’s Polish translation.

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Ewa Skwara
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A review of Marek Węcowski’s book Dylemat więźnia. Ostracyzm ateński i jego pierwotne cele (A Prisoner’s Dilemma: Athenian Ostracism and Its Original Purpose).

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Paweł Sawiński
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Plant derived α-amylase inhibitors are proteinaceous molecules that regulate the enzyme activity in plants and also protect plants from insect attack. In the current study, 28 accessions of 19 plant species were screened for their α-amylase inhibitory activity. The durum wheat varieties, Beni Suef-1 and Beni Suef-5, showed strong α-amylase inhibitory activity and were subjected to further purification studies using ammonium sulfate fractionation and DEAE-Sephadex G-25 column. The isolated inhibitors were found to be stable at temperatures below 80°C with maximum activity obtained at 40−50°C. Also, they were stable in a wide pH range (2−12). The ion exchange products of purified α-amylase inhibitors from Beni Suef-1 and Beni Suef-5 varieties showed a molecular weight of 16 and 24 kDa, respectively. The purified α-amylase inhibitors were tested against Tribolium castaneum and Callosobruchus maculatus both in vitro and in vivo. There was linear inhibition of α-amylase activity with increasing inhibitor concentration until saturation was reached. Beni Suef-5 α-amylase inhibitor was more potent against α-amylase with lower IC50 values than Beni Suef-1 α-amylase inhibitor except in the case of T. castaneum larva. Kinetics analysis revealed that Beni Suef-1 and Beni Suef-5 α-amylase inhibitors are non-competitive types of inhibitors with high affinity toward α-amylase of T. castaneum and C. maculatus. Results of the in vivo studies demonstrated that α-amylase inhibitors isolated from durum wheat, Beni Suef-1 and Beni Suef-5 varieties, were very effective in inhibiting the development of T. castaneum and C. maculatus and could be used for future studies in developing insect resistant transgenic plants approaching α-amylase inhibitor genes.

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Ashraf Oukasha Abd El-latif
Nesma Mohieldeen
Ahmed Mahmoud Ali Salman
Elena N. Elpidina
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The efficacy of the fungus Lecanicillium lecanii and two bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis and Streptomyces avermitilis against the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch and side effects on its predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis A.-H. was studied under laboratory conditions. Both S. avermitilis and B. thuringiensis based biopesticides resulted in maximum mortality rates of 90–100% and 91–99% for spider mite adults and larvae, respectively. The mortality of spider mite larvae under fungus L. lecanii treatment was around 60%. These bacteria and fungus also had toxic effects against P. persimilis on the same day of applying insecticides and releasing the predatory mite. The release of predatory mites one day post-treatment of plants with L. lecanii and 7 days post-treatment with B. thuringiensis or S. avermitilis did not negatively affect the survival of predators released. These findings support the potential use of entomopathogenic fungi and bacteria in combination with predatory mites in spider mite biocontrol.

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Alexandra A. Zenkova
Ekaterina V. Grizanova
Irina V. Andreeva
Daria Y. Gerne
Elena I. Shatalova
Vera P. Cvetcova
Ivan M. Dubovskiy
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The Kelani River is the second largest watershed in Sri Lanka and the main water-supply intake point for the Greater Colombo. The present study focuses to identify the sources of pollutants of the meandering zone of the Kelani River, par-ticularly due to the absence of more recent information. Accordingly, a survey was conducted to obtain information on in-dustrial discharges, anthropological, and social activities within the area of 15 m from left and right banks of the river. The high contaminations (total and faecal coliform – 1100 MPN∙(100 cm3)–1; COD – 10 mg∙dm–3; BOD – 4 mg∙dm–3) of surface and groundwater are corroborated with the results obtained via the demographic and land usage statistics. Industrial pollu-tant sources and harmful anthropological practices were identified as major threats to the river basin. In this survey, agricul-ture and land degradation were identified as issues due to improper land use management. As policy recommendations based on the results of the study, it was identified that the awareness for Kelani River protection should be increased; moni-toring and evaluation of the Kelani River basin under a management plan should be implemented; and stakeholder and pri-vate partnerships contribution to the sustainability of the Kelani River basin should be established.

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Pathmalal Manage
Yohan L. Mahagamage
Roshan Ajward
Sampath Amaratunge
Visitha I. Amarathunga

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