Introduction

Abstract

The presented 8th volume of Scripta Classica contains a collection of texts which introduce us to the literature and culture throughout the ages: antiquity as well as medieval times, and Renaissance and Baroque era. The volume starts with the article by Bogdan Burliga, in which the author comprehensively discusses a scene of the Book XXII of the Odyssey (457—473), describing the capital punishment of the handmaids from Ithaca who were concubines of the Odysseus’ wife’s suitors during his long absence from home. In the next paper Faustyna Szyja tries to estimate the location of the legendary white rock, the jump from which was regarded as remedium amoris (Fragment tekstu).