stepsШаги/StepsShagi / Steps2412-94102782-1765The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-154-162steps-164Research ArticleАНТИЧНЫЙ МИРWORLD OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITYHellenistic poets on the origin of the Nile: A poetic commentary on a geographical problemHellenistic poets on the origin of the Nile: A poetic commentary on a geographical problemhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1212-8186МаломудА. М.MalomudA. M.

Анна Михайловна Маломуд, PhD, старший преподаватель

Институт общественных наук; историко-филологический факультет; кафедрaвсеобщей истории

119571; пр-т Вернадского, д. 82; Москва

Anna Μ. Malomud, PhD, Senior Lecturer

Institute for Social Sciences; Faculty of History and Philology; Department of General History

119571; Prospekt Vernadskogo, 82; Moscow

malomud-am@ranepa.ruРоссийская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФРоссияThe Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussian Federation202402022025102154162Copyright © Маломуд А.М., 20252025Маломуд А.М.Malomud A.M.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/164

   В статье рассматриваются места из Феокрита (7.113–114), Каллимаха (H. 4.206–208), Никандра (Ther. 174–176) и Оппиана (Hal. 1.620), объединенные совместным упоминанием Нила и эфиопов. Появление этих двух деталей в рамках одного стиха/предложения можно истолковать как намек на один из дискуссионных вопросов античной географии — местоположение истоков Нила. Вероятно, мы имеем дело с особым типом аллюзии: каждый из упомянутых поэтов отсылает не к конкретному месту или тексту, но к ученой проблеме, осведомленность в которой он желает продемонстрировать. В связи с пассажами из Феокрита и Оппиана релевантна также проблема «двойных» эфиопов (западных и восточных), берущая начало из толкований гомеровского места (Od. 1.23–24). Автор приходит к выводу, что перечисленные поэты создают своего рода комментарии к трудным географическим названиям; эта техника аналогична так называемой interpretatio Homerica, т. е. толкованию редких гомеровских слов путем помещения их в определенный поэтический контекст.

   The paper deals with passages from Theocritus (7.113–114), Callimachus (H. 4.206–208), Nicander (Ther. 174–176), and Oppian (Hal. 1.620), united by the joint mention of the Nile and the Ethiopians. The appearance of these two details within the same verse/sentence can be interpreted as an allusion to one of the debatable questions of ancient geography — the location of the sources of the Nile. It is likely that here we are dealing with a special type of allusion: each of the poets in question refers not to a specific place or text, but to a scientific problem, awareness of which he wants to demonstrate. The author concludes that such geographical allusions can be regarded as an implicit commentary and are similar to the poetic technique of so-called interpretatio Homerica (the use of a Homeric hapax, in which the context itself contains the author’s opinion on the correct interpretation of a particular rare word). In connection with the passages from Theocritus and Oppian, the problem of “double” Ethiopians — western and eastern — is also relevant. The article pays attention to the origins of this (Hom. Od. 1.23–24) and also considers interpretations of this Homeric place in Herodotus’ Histories, Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Pliny’s Natural History.

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