A Group Member Has Participated in the International Conference «Vyacheslav Ivanov: The Enigma of Modernism» in Jerusalem

On May 5, Liia Ermakova delivered a report on «Bibleisms in Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Translations of Aeschylus».

It is well-known that Vyacheslav Ivanov translated four tragedies by Aeschylus in their entirety (of the seven that survived) and two partially. In his translations, one can find a considerable number of archaisms, among which it is possible to single out vocabulary belonging to the Church Slavonic language. This can be explained not only by Ivanov's wish to translate Aeschylus' stylistically archaic language but also by his thesis about the vital influence of Hellenic language on Russian. The reader familiar with liturgical texts and with the Church Slavonic translation of the Bible, when reading Aeschylus in Ivanov's translation, will inevitably have occasional associations with the biblical text. The report examined several instances in which Ivanov translates the Greek text using words and expressions that bring biblical and Christian connotations to the translation.