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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 pub-id-type="doi">10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-2-57-67</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">steps-44</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>ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЫ И ВЛАСТЬ В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ ЕВРОПЫ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>INTELLECTUALS AND POWER IN EUROPEAN POLITICAL HISTORY</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Драконций как пропагандист и историк: дидактический смысл римской истории в «Хвале Господу»</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Dracontius as propagandist and historian: Didactic meaning of Roman history in De Laudibus Dei</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6428-5357</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Никольский</surname><given-names>И. М.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Nikolsky</surname><given-names>I. M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Иван Михайлович Никольский - кандидат исторических наук, доцент, кафедра классической филологии, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет; доцент, кафедра всеобщей истории, Институт общественных наук, Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ; научный сотрудник, Институт всеобщей истории РАН</p><p>125993, Москва, Миусская пл., д. 6, Тел.: +7 (495) 250-69-38</p><p>119571, Москва, пр-т Вернадского, д. 82, Тел.: +7 (499) 956-96-47</p><p>119334, Москва, Ленинский пр-т, д. 32а, Тел.: +7 (495) 954-44-82</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ivan M. Nikolsky - Cand. Sci. (History), Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities; Assistant Professor, Department of World History, Institute of Social Sciences, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Researcher, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences</p><p>125993, Moscow, Miusskaya Sq., 6 Tel.: +7 (495) 250-69-38</p><p>119571, Moscow, Prospekt Vernadskogo, 82, Tel.: +7(499)956-96-47</p><p>119334, Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 32a, Tel.: +7(495)954-44-82</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ivan.nikolsky@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Российский государственный гуманитарный университет; Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ; Институт всеобщей истории РАН</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Russian State University for Humanities; The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>57</fpage><lpage>67</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Никольский И.М., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Никольский И.М.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Nikolsky I.M.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" 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/44">https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/44</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье предлагается новая интерпретация третьей книги богословской поэмы «Хвала Господу» (De Laudibus Dei) позднеантичного поэта из Карфагена Блоссия Эмилия Драконция. Обычно исследователи понимают ее как антиязыческий манифест. Однако сравнительный анализ с другими произведениями этого автора, среди которых мифологические поэмы «Похищение Елены», «Трагедия Ореста», «Медея», а также написанное в тюрьме в качестве стихотворной просьбы о помиловании «Искупление», показывает, что основной конфликт в этой части поэмы был далек от проблемы христианско-языческого противостояния, ее текст имел совершенно иную дидактическую окраску, вполне конкретные политические цели и конкретных адресатов. Выводы статьи позволяют пролить свет на взаимоотношения «интеллектуальной» римской и «силовой» вандальской группами элит в северной Африке рубежа V и VI вв.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article deals with the problem of interpreting the third book of the poem ‘Praises of God” (De Laudibus Dei) by the late antique Carthaginian poet Blossius Aemilius Dracontius. Since the poem is formally of theological character, researchers usually regard it as a Christian anti-pagan manifesto. However, comparison with other works by Dracontius, including the epyllia ‘The Abduction of Helen’ (De Raptu Helenae), ‘The Tragedy of Orestes’ (Orestis Tragoedia), and ‘Medea”, as well as ‘The Atonement’ (Satisfactio), written in prison as a verse plea for mercy, allows us to see in it political allegories that highlight other challenges relevant to the author’s contemporary period. In particular, Dracontius has in mind the collapse of the Roman Empire and the emergence of barbarian kingdoms, the associated redistribution of spheres of inﬂuence, and the struggle for power between the old and new elites. Manipulating textbook historical and mythological plots, the Roman poet constructs a didactic model focused on both of these groups in the Vandal kingdom, one that allows him to consider himself a signiﬁcant political inﬂuencer. The conclusions of the article shed light on the relationship between the “intellectual” Roman and the “military” Vandal noble groups in North Africa at the turn of the 5th and 6th centuries.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>вандалы</kwd><kwd>поздняя античность</kwd><kwd>Драконций</kwd><kwd>Карфаген</kwd><kwd>христианство</kwd><kwd>язычество</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Vandals</kwd><kwd>Late Antiquity</kwd><kwd>Dracontius</kwd><kwd>Carthage</kwd><kwd>Christianity</kwd><kwd>paganism</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Гаспаров 1970 — Гаспаров М. Л. Драконтий // Памятники средневековой латинской литературы IV–IX веков / Отв. ред. М. Е. Грабарь-Пассек, М. Л. Гаспаров. М.: Наука, 1970. С. 118–127.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Bright, D. F. (1987). The miniature epic in Vandal Africa. 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