Thadaeus Zielinski

Thaddeus Zielinski (1859-1944), a renowned Russian and Polish scholar, was one of Europe's most significant classical philologists. He held honorary professorships at various universities and academies, served as a professor at the University of St. Petersburg (1887-1920), and later at the University of Warsaw (1921-1935). Zielinski authored several hundred works on the literature, culture, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. His most notable works include "The Structure of Attic Comedy" (1885), "Sophocles and His Dramatic Work" (Krakow, 1928), "Cicero in the History of European Culture" (St. Petersburg, 1922), "Horace and Roman Society in the Age of Augustus" (Paris, 1938), "Religions of the Ancient World" (in 4 volumes, 1921-1934), "Hellenism and Judaism" (in 2 volumes, Warsaw, 1928), "Ancient Greek Literature of the Independence Era" (St. Petersburg, 1920), "The History of Ancient Culture," "Legendary Antiquity" (in 4 volumes, 1930), "Independent Greece" (1933), "The Roman Republic" (1935), "The Roman Empire" (1938), "The Ancients and Us" (1903), and "From the Life of Ideas" (1925-1939).