Allusion and Allegory: Studies in the "Ciris"

249 Pages·2016·1.73 MB·English

by  Boris Kayachev

Boris Kayachev
Allusion and Allegory
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Herausgegeben von Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall,
Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen
Band 346
Boris Kayachev
Allusion
and Allegory
Studies in the Ciris
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To Nikolay Epplée
wisest and best of my unofficial teachers
Itiseasytoforgetthatthemanwhowritesagoodlovesonnetneedsnotonlyto
be enamoured of awoman,but also to be enamoured of the Sonnet.
C.S. Lewis
Acknowledgements
Thisbookisaslightlyrevisedversionofmydoctoraldissertation,writtenatthe
University of Leeds in 2009‒2012. Robert Maltby, who supervised it, did more
than I can acknowledge to mitigate the effects of my stubborn ignorance with
his patience and wisdom.Gregory Hutchinson (Christ Church,Oxford) and Ste-
ven Green (University College London), who examined the thesis, and Regine
May (Universityof Leeds),who readan earlydraft of a chapter,gave theircom-
ments and suggestions. The Department of Classics supported my research by
providing a scholarship as well as a friendly and peaceful environment for un-
disturbed study.FlorisOverduin(RadboudUniversity,Nijmegen)andGailTrim-
ble(TrinityCollege,Oxford)kindlysharedwithmetheirunpublishedtheses.My
parents, Luiza and Alexander Kayachev, and friends,whom I do not attempt to
list,were generous inwhatever theycould assist me with during those years of
myhelplessdevotiontoaforgottenLatinpoet.Thisworkwouldalsohavebeen
impossiblewithout thecombinedeffortsofallwhohadtaught,advisedandin-
spiredmebeforeIcametoLeeds.Amongamultitudeofteachers,AndreiRossius
(Moscow University, at the time), Thomas Poiss (Humboldt University, Berlin)
and Nikolay Grintser (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
had been my best guides in the ways of classical scholarship. Finally, Richard
Davies (University of Leeds) bravely read and corrected the entire manuscript
(all remaining errors are mine, as is non patrii sermonis egestas). To them all,
named and unnamed, I owe a debt of gratitude, to each of a different kind,
but to everyone of a scope that exceeds my power of expression. Quis loquetur
potentias Domini, auditas faciet omnes laudes ejus?
Easter 2016, Trondheim

Contents
Acknowledgements VII
Introduction 1
 The proem (lines 1‒100) 20
 Beginning from the beginning (lines 101‒205) 55
 The night episode (lines 206‒348) 92
 Heroic deeds (lines 349‒385) 128
 An epic voyage (lines 386‒477) 145
 The metamorphosis (lines 478‒541) 173
Conclusion 209
Bibliography 212
Index of passages cited 224