Abstract
The description and classification of linguistic references to the classical (Graeco-Roman) antiquity used in eight M. Krajewski’s crime novels are the main basis for the present paper. The conclusions form an attempt to look in general at the purposefulness of their use and the functions they serve, while referencing certain rules and tendencies related to crime writing and popular literature as such. The research results put forward are mostly based on the body of linguistic examination drawing from lexicology, phraseme studies, including phraseology, and onomastics. In the novels (about 600 fragments), the two-pronged (textual and paratextual) references to classical antiquity materialise in three layers: phraseme-related (polyword constructions in the form of Latin quotations and set phrases – reproductions, innovations and nonce words), lexical (Latin lexemes, eponyms and eponymisms), and onimic (primary and secondary proper names of ancient provenance among them).
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