title: Greek “Lament” by Vyacheslav Ivanov
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metadata.value: Ermakova, Liia L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:50:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:50:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Ermakova L. L. Greek “Lament” by Vyacheslav Ivanov. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (2), 321–328. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.212 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.212
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48080
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article publishes a Greek poem composed by the Russian symbolist Vyacheslav Ivanov
  in Rome on September 2, 1893. The author’s signature below contains an indication of the genre (“threnos”, i. e. “lament”): the combination of iambic trimeter with the author’s title
  “threnos” can be found in the Carmina de se ipso by Gregory Nazianzin. Despite the Greek
  meter, language, and vocabulary borrowed partly from epic poetry, Ivanov is oriented toward
  the Russian Romantic tradition in choosing as a key theme the longing for the “sweet north”
  contrasted with the south, a representation of an earthly paradise. Other Romantic motifs
  include exile and envy of free birds. References to ancient mythology are expressed in the
  images of the garden of the Hesperides and the country of the Hyperboreans: whereas the
  garden of the Hesperides, conceptually linked in Ivanov’s poetry with the South, is an idyllic
  space metaphorically referring to Italy, Hyperborea is traditionally associated with Russia. The
  white-winged birds aspiring to the Hyperborean home are swans, and thus here appears implicitly
  the metapoetic theme developed by Ivanov with the Hyperborean myth in later poems.
  The genre and theme of exile point to the influence of Ovid’s Tristia: a year earlier, Ivanov had
  written an elegiac epistle to A. M. Dmitrievsky entitled Laeta, in which he recognizes Rome as
  his new home, and instead of homesickness, there is a motif of longing for a friend.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The present study is carried out within the framework of an RSF (Russian Science Foundation)
  project 23-28-00514, https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-00514/.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vyacheslav Ivanov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Romanticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “homesickness” motif
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neo-Hellenic poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Greek “Lament” by Vyacheslav Ivanov
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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