Superbia, superbus. Sémantická studie a kulturně-historická sonda do hodnotového systému

• Main Author: Janovčíková, Jana
• Other Authors: Mouchová, Bohumila
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-280480

The purpose of this thesis is to explore and explain the meaning of the Latin word superbus plus it's derivatives (superbia, superbe, superbiter, superbire) and the way in which it is usually or not-so-usually used. In particular, during this exploration we will look into the works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca and Cornelius Tacitus, two authors of the 1st century AD. Analysis of kinds of behavior, situations and characters which bore the negative evaluative name of superbia in the mind (and texts) of a historian and a philosopher shall open an insight into the Roman system of values in political and social context. That is the reason, why the first field with which we will compare the data obtained by our analysis will be the general trend in the usage of this word which we will find in the textual corpus of Rome's republican era and the Principate era authors. Our second comparatory field will be formed by meanings and evaluations carried by Czech words, which are usually used as translations of Latin superbus, especially the words pyšný and povýšený. Those meanings and evaluations we will seek in the CzechNational Corpus.