Chapter Отголоски античности в русской поэзии XVIII века (набросок к теме)

Overview & Synopsis

Echoes of Antiquity in Russian Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (A Preliminary Sketch). The article is devoted to the dependence of Russian poetry of the 18th century on ancient poetic culture. Using the example of the use of references to ancient heroes and gods in various genres of poetry from the 1730s to the first half of the 1770s, a preliminary conclusion is made about the weak interest in ancient mythology and ancient history of most of the poets of this era.