Cresce la nostra dose di antichità. I classici nell’opera poetica di Wisława Szymborska

This paper analyzes the Classical Reception in the complete works of the Polish poetess Wisława Szymborska, Nobel Prize in 1996. The first part reviews the most considerable amount of classical references which are about mythology. The second part focuses on poems whose characters and episodes are drawn from Ancient History. Another group of the lyrics analyzed presents Greek philosophers and philosophies. Finally the paper reports a list of poems containing sentences and expressions borrowed from Classical Literature.