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Author Szabo, Csaba

Title András Bodor and the History of Classical Studies in Transylvania in the 20th Century
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (221 p.)
Series Archaeological Lives Ser
Archaeological Lives Ser
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Research history and sources -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies and historiographic reflections -- History of classics before András Bodor in Transylvania -- The life of András Bodor -- From Suatu (Magyarszovát) to Oxford: the beginnings (1915-1937) -- The Oxford Years -- From Theology to Classics -- In the Service of Universities -- András Bodor, the Classicist: His Work and Legacy -- The so-called 'Geto-Dacian' Period -- Roman History, Art and Religion -- The History of Ancient Napoca
Ancient Slavery -- Figure 33. Sarmizegetusa Regia during restoration in the 1980s (source: https://cercetare.dacica.ro/ -- accessed: 15.03.2020). -- Figure 34. A letter from Wolfgang Haase to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 35. The ANRW series (buchfreunde.de -- open access). -- Figure 36. Plan of ancient Napoca (after Diaconescu 2004). -- Figure 37. Masaoki Doi and András Bodor in Cluj at the end of the 1980s (photo: with the kind permission of the Bodor family)
Conclusions -- Sumar -- Összefoglaló -- Annexes: the Academic Correspondence of András Bodor -- Figure 38. J.H. Weatherall's letter confirming Bodor as a student at Manchester College, Oxford (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 39. A letter from Johannes Irmscher to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár)
Figure 40. 1-2. Postcard of Steven Runciman (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 41. 1-2. A letter from Wolfgang Haase to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 42. 1-2. A letter from Kurt Horedt to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár)
Figure 43. Conference invitation to András Bodor from Tokyo (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 44. A letter from Wolfgang Haase to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 45. A letter from Wolfgang Haase to András Bodo (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár)
Summary This volume focusses on the life and academic heritage of András Bodor (1915-1999), a classicist from Transylvania. Based on a large number of unpublished documents and the major works of Bodor, the book reconstructs the life of a classicist from the periphery of Europe, a region that changed many times during the 20th century
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Figure 46.1-2. A letter from Sheppard Frere to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection
Subject Classicists -- Romania -- Transylvania -- Biography
Classicists
Romania -- Transylvania
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781789698350
1789698359