András Bodor and the History of Classical Studies in Transylvania in the 20th Century.

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). -- Figure 46.1-2. A letter from Sheppard Frere to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 47. A letter from András Bodor to Sheppard Frere (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 48. A letter from Sheppard Frere to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 49. A letter from Masaoki Doi to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár).

Figure 50. 1-2. A letter from Peter Fraser to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 51. A letter from Sheppard Frere to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 52. 1-2. A letter from András Bodor to Peter Fraser (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 53. A letter from Peter Fraser to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 54. 1-2. A letter from András Bodor to Peter Fraser (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 55. A letter from Stephen Johnson to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 56. 1-2. A letter from András Bodor to Masaoki Doi (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 57. 1-2. A letter from Sheppard Frere to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Figure 58. 1-2. A letter from Sheppard Frere to András Bodor (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- Bibliography of András Bodor -- I. Academic works (volumes, studies, articles) -- II. Manuals, courses, maps.

III. Translations -- IV. Popularising articles -- V. Reviews, book presentations -- VI. Notes, obituaries, reports -- VII. Works about András Bodor -- References -- Index -- 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) -- Figure 1. Suatu, Magyarszovát and its Unitarian church (photo: the author). -- Figure 2. The house of the Bodor family in Magyarszovát, Suatu in the early 1990s (photo: Bodor family archives with the kind permission of István Bodor). -- Figure 3. Medieval frescoes from the Unitarian Church of Magyarszovát, Suatu (photo: György Sebestyén Székely). -- Figure 4. The János Zsigmond Unitarian Gymnasium from Cluj in the interwar period (photo: http://greenstone.bjc.ro/ -- accessed: 15.03.2020). -- Figure 5. Portrait of Constantin Daicoviciu, doyen of Romanian classical studies and archaeology in Cluj (photo: despteti.ro (open access -- accessed: 15.03.2020). -- Figure 6. Constantin Daicoviciu, as president of Babeș-Bolyai University (photo: ubbcluj.ro -- accessed: 15.03.2020). -- Figure 7. J.H. Weatherall's letter in which Bodor was informed that he had received a two-year scholarship to Oxford (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár). -- The Oxford Years -- Figure 8. Bodor's room at Manchester College, Oxford. George Berkeley (1685-1753) also lived and studied in that room (photo: the author). -- Figure 9. András Bodor and a panoramic view of Oxford in 1938 (photo: Bodor Collection in the possession of István Bodor -- with the kind permission of the family).

Figure 10. András Bodor with his colleagues and professors at Manchester College in 1938 (photo: from the photographic archives of Harris Manchester College, with the special permission of the Library). -- Figure 11. András Bodor with his colleagues and professors at Manchester College in 1939 (photo: from the photographic archives of Harris Manchester College, with the special permission of the Library). -- Figure 12. András Bodor in the garden of Manchester College, Oxford (photo: Bodor Collection in the possession of István Bodor -- with the kind permission of the family). -- Figure 13. András Bodor with a friend in England during his visits to Unitarian communities (photo: Bodor Collection in the possession of István Bodor -- with the kind permission of the family). -- Figure 14. Portrait of J.H. Weatherall at Harris Manchester College by Edward Halliday (photo: from the photographic archives of Harris Manchester College, with the special permission of Susan Killoran). -- Figure 15. Friends and colleagues of András Bodor in Oxford from India, Ireland, and the UK (photo: Bodor Collection in the possession of István Bodor -- with the kind permission of the family). -- Figure 16. Portrait of András Bodor as a graduate student (photo: Bodor Collection in the possession of István Bodor -- with the kind permission of the family). -- From Theology to Classics -- Figure 17. András Bodor as teacher in the Unitarian High School in the 1940s (photo: photographic collection of the Unitarian High School). -- Figure 19. András Bodor and his wife Klára Antónya at their wedding in 1943 (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection -- with the kind permission of the family and Lehel Molnár).

Figure 18. András Bodor and his wife Klára Antónya at their wedding in 1943 (photo: Archives of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church, Bodor Collection.

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.

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