Russian hexametric translations from greek and latin of the 19th–21st centuries: rhythmic variants

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Russian hexameter is a specific type of tonic verse designed particularly for translations and emulations of Ancient Greek and Latin epic poetry. 32 theoretically possible rhythmical variants of this verse can be compared to analogous types of Ancient quantitative hexameter, although sensu stricto they belong to different systems of versification and therefore could not be called equirhythmic. This paper presents computations of these variants, based on collection of translations from Greek/Latin into Russian that embraces c. 169 thousands of lines from the beginning of 19th century to nowadays. This data can be studied from various points: translations being compared with the originals, translations of the same text being opposed to each other; we also can examine rhythmical structrures of different texts rendered by the same poet. Some observations are made: “spondee in the 5th foot” is not completely prohibited; translations from Greek are surprisingly more rhythmically variable, than translations from Latin; non-standart (“incorrect”) lines could be compared to metrical derivatives of Russian hexameter.

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Vladimir Fayer

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

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Email: vvfire@hse.ru

Cand. Sci. (Philol.), Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics, Senior Researcher at the School of Philological Sciences

Rússia, 21-4 Staraya Basmannaya Str., Moscow, 105066

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2. Fig. 1. The proportion of disyllabic intervals in the translations of Veresaev (Odyssey), Petrovsky (Lucretius), Fedorov (et al.) and Rossius

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3. Fig. 2. The proportion of disyllabic intervals in the translations of Tsereteli, Osherov, Averintsev and Rabinovich

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4. Fig. 3. The proportion of disyllabic intervals in the translations of Gnedich, Fet and Amelin

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