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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">steps</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Шаги/Steps</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Shagi / Steps</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2412-9410</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2782-1765</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id custom-type="edn" pub-id-type="custom">MJGMNT</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">steps-1167</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>КОММЕНТАРИИ К ДРЕВНЕМУ ТЕКСТУ: СТАРЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ И НОВЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>COMMENTARIES TO CLASSICAL TEXTS: OLD PROBLEMS AND NEW APPROACHES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Змеи, «улитки земли» и Гесиод: комментарий к Nic. Ther. 153</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Snakes, “land snails” and Hesiod: Commentary on Nic. Ther. 153</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1212-8186</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Маломуд</surname><given-names>А. М.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Malomud</surname><given-names>A. M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Анна Михайловна Маломуд, PhD cтарший преподаватель, кафедра всеобщей истории, историко-филологический факультет, Институт общественных наук; научный сотрудник, Лаборатория комментирования античных текстов</p><p>119571, Москва, пр-т Вернадского, д. 82</p><p>121069, Москва, ул. Поварская, д. 25а, стр. 1</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Anna Mikhailovna Malomud, PhD Senior Lecturer, Department of General History, Faculty of History and Philology, Institute for Social Sciences; Research Fellow, Laboratory for Commentary on Ancient Texts</p><p>119571, Moscow, Prospekt Vernadskogo, 82</p><p>121069, Moscow, Povarskaya Str., 25a, Bld. 1</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">malomud-am@ranepa.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации ; Институт мировой литературы им. А. М. Горького РАН<country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration ; A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>173</fpage><lpage>180</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Маломуд А.М., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Маломуд А.М.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Malomud A.M.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/1167">https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/1167</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье предлагается комплексная интерпретация стиха 153 дидактической поэмы Никандра Колофонского «О действии животных ядов» (Theriaca), в котором одна из разновидностей ядовитых змей — сепс — сравнивается с улиткой. Указанное место рассматривается как в контексте отрывка о сепсах (ст. 145–156), так и применительно к литературной традиции греческого дидактического эпоса. В ходе анализа этого сравнения показывается несостоятельность его общепринятой интерпретации, исходящей из того, что змея и улитка имеют сходство по цвету. Автор статьи выдвигает предположение, что для анализируемого места в «Theriaca» скорее значимо внешнее сходство иного рода, нежели цвет, — например, текстура кожи обоих животных или форма извива, которая присуща раковине улитки и телу змеи. Помимо этого, автор выявляет гесиодовский подтекст сравнения змеи с улиткой, который Никандр создает при помощи отсылки к дидактической поэме «Труды и дни». Данная отсылка строится на описательном обозначении улитки, которое по своей манере напоминает так называемые кеннинги в поэме Гесиода.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article offers a comprehensive interpretation of verse 153 of Nicander of Colophon’s didactic poem Theriaca, in which the seps — one of the varieties of poisonous snakes — is compared to a snail. The passage is analyzed both in the context of the passage about the seps (145–156) and in relation to the literary tradition of Greek didactic epic poetry. Analysis of this comparison shows the inconsistency of its generally accepted interpretation, based on the fact that the snake and the snail are similar in color. On the contrary, the author of the article suggests that the passage in question in Nicander’s Theriaca is more likely to be influenced by a different kind of external resemblance rather than color — for example, the texture of the skin of both animals or the coiled shape of the snail’s shell and of the body of the snake. Furthermore, the author reveals the Hesiodic subtext in the comparison of the snake to the snail, and points out that Nicander creates it by means of a reference to Hesiod’s ‘Works and Days’. This reference is based on the descriptive designation of the snail, which in its manner is strongly reminiscent of the so-called ‘kennings’ in Hesiod’s didactic poem.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Никандр Колофонский</kwd><kwd>Гесиод</kwd><kwd>дидактический эпос</kwd><kwd>аллюзия</kwd><kwd>улитка</kwd><kwd>змеи</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Nicander of Colophon</kwd><kwd>Hesiod</kwd><kwd>didactic epics</kwd><kwd>allusion</kwd><kwd>snail</kwd><kwd>snakes</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement>Данная статья подготовлена в рамках государственного задания РАНХиГС.</funding-statement></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement>The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Маломуд 2025 — Маломуд А. 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