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Eneida (Ukrainian: Енеїда, Ukrainian for "Aeneid") is a Ukrainian burlesque poem, written by Ivan Kotliarevsky in 1798. This mock-heroic poem is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in the modern Ukrainian language.
Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks. Critics believe that it was written in the light of the destruction of Zaporizhian Host by the order of Catherine the Great .
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Apr 9, 2022 · Although coming from a well-born Cossack background, Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky (1769–1838), who would have been six years old in 1775, pointedly avoids mentioning the traumatic events of that year in his life’s work, the Eneida (1798). [2]
Mar 20, 2024 · Ivan Kotlyarevsky was an author whose burlesque-travesty of Virgil’s Aeneid was the first work written wholly in the Ukrainian language; it distinguished him as the father of modern Ukrainian literature. The Eneida (1798) transmutes Aeneas and the Trojans into dispossessed Cossacks of the period
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Published for the Ukrainian Canadian Committee by the University of Toronto Press. Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769-1838), poet and playwright is often called the “founder” of modern Ukrainian literature. After studying at the Poltava Theological Seminary (1780–9), he worked as a tutor at rural gentry estates, where he became acquainted with folk ...
Ivan Kotliarevsky authored a piece that has become a source of proverbs and quotes which Ukrainians still use to this day, more than 180 years after the publication of the text in 1842. The colorful, bold, and ironic “Eneida” portrays the reality of that time without embellishments, documenting the era through depictions of beliefs, rituals ...
The Aeneid of Kotlyarevsky is a true encyclopaedia of the popular life, domestic affairs and customs of contemporary Ukrainian society. Portrait of Kotlyarevsky by Anatolii Bazylevych from Ivan Kotliarevskyi, Eneida. (Kyiv, 1989) YF.2013.a.26059. The depiction of the characters of Kotlyarevsky’s Aeneid in visual art has a long history.
