#telemachis

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Is a family picture like, appropriate for Valentines day? Idk but enjoy Odysseus and Penelope's little family. Fake daughter included because it's my AU, I make the rules.

[ruslit]

1766: Trediakovsky’s Тилемахида

which was very prosaic in French, but he raises it up

tthis is both imitating and excelling – he shows he can do it better than the French writer Fenilon

a treatise was attached to the epic: it was called a героическая поема – you are only showing one part of a hero’s life, this is not a bildungsroman;

no supernatural, no deus ex machine

what meter? Russian equivalent is 6 foot lines that are combination of dactyls and trochees – HEROIC

This Тилемахида was made more digestible than the French by Trediakovsky

He doesn’t want to represent real speech but does want to give it a somewhat oratorical feel

The crazy meter slows you down and it’s supposed to, so that you can savour every line. It’s “ahead of its time”!

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it’s very artificial, it’s very archaic, high-style

It’s funny because he started out as an advocate for the low-style

It was very out of fashion at this point

[ruslit]

Trediakovsky's Telemachis (1766), a heroic epic in hexameters based on Fénelon's Aventures de Télémaque, a work which earned him mostly ridicule was in fact of considerable merit. It introduced the dactylic-trochaic hexameter to Russian poetry.

The moralizing tone of the Telemachis and its direct attacks on tyranny, favoritism, and court intrigue hardly appealed to Catherine the Great. It's moral message was certainly in tune with the spirit of the Enlightenment.