by Konrad Opałko
edited by : Małgorzata Lisiecka, prof. Anna Cichocka
The Latin words „Macte animo” mean „Feel the spirit! Praise the spirit!”. This statement is dated from the 1st century AD. It is the motto of XI Mikołaj Rej High School in Warsaw.
The words „Macte animo” were taken from the poem „Thebais” written by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Stacius. This artwork is an epic poem which tell the story about the fight between brothers of Antigone and Ismene: Polynices and Eteocles for the reign over the Greek Thebes. Their duel is the dramatic point of the story.
„Thebais” is a development of a story about the expedition of seven against Thebes, repeated many times in the epic and dramatic works of Greeks and Romans. It was mentioned by the Greeks: Homer and Euripides and the Romans: Ovid, Seneca and Czytaj dalej „Macte Animo – short abstract”