Filologia klasyczna i przyjaźń. U źródeł filomackiej towarzyskości

Abstract

The article shows the connection between the erudition of the Philomaths in the field of classical philology and Philomathic sociability, the essential manifestation of which was friendship ties. Philomaths’ programmatic and organizational writings and their private correspondence, poetic works, and customs are analyzed, which are characteristic of this milieu. Cicero’s dialogue “Lelius on Friendship” – situated here in the context of the widely outlined classical interpretation and valorization of friendship (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca the Younger, Christian thought) – is indicated one of the foundations of the Philomaths’ understanding and experience of friendship. Also included in the sphere of reference is the question of the course and quality of classical education of Mickiewicz and his peers and the peculiarities of Vilnius’s classical philology in the first decades of the 19th century.