title: Was Pigres an Interpreter to Cyrus?
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metadata.value: Rubtsov, Roman
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metadata.value: 2022-10-06T13:54:54Z
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metadata.value: 2022-10-06T13:54:54Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Rubtsov R. Was Pigres an Interpreter to Cyrus? Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (1), 22–31. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.102
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38243
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metadata.value: Ancient authors did not leave us any description of ancient interpreters, and neither their
  usual functions nor possible social positions are known to us. Although this can be partially
  restored from written sources, the whole picture remains in the shadows. We are not aware of
  the ways in which people became interpreters in Antiquity, whether such a profession actually
  existed, and to what extent it is possible to apply the modern understanding of interpreters to
  ancient times. Finally, there are many dark corners in our understanding of historical specifics:
  the functions, social status and ethnic origin of interpreters obviously varied in different
  cultures and time frames. The use of a word or an expression defining the interpreter is another
  issue, for Greek ἑρμηνεύς, a traditional lexeme in dictionaries of Ancient Greek (LSJ,
  GE, DELG, GEW, EDG, Woodhouse), does not, in fact, always denote someone related to this
  line of work. In Xenophon’s Anabasis a person named Pigres is described as ἑρμηνεύς and one
  of the companions of Cyrus the Younger in his belligerent attempt to overthrow Artaxerxes
  II. Pigres is usually understood as an interpreter (Gehman, Lendle, Rochette, Wiotte-Franz,
  Stoneman etc.), but is there a solid basis for such understanding? What do we know about
  him? What does Xenophon tell us about his responsibilities? The study shows that Pigres’
  identity should be understood in relation to the usage of the word ἑρμηνεύς in V–ΙV BCE and
  to the sociocultural context of Asia Minor under the rule of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 17; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pigres
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ἑρμηνεύς
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cyrus the Younger
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Xenophon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient interpretersPigres
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ἑρμηνεύς
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cyrus the Younger
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Xenophon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient interpreters
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Was Pigres an Interpreter to Cyrus?
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metadata.value: Article
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