Fu, H CANTEMIR’S TRANSLATION OF THE TREATISE “TABLET” BY CEBES OF THEBES. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(3):110–114. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.608


Literary studies

CANTEMIR’S TRANSLATION OF THE TREATISE “TABLET” BY CEBES OF THEBES

Fu
Heng 		Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
translation by Cantemir
“Tablet” by Cebes of Thebes
sources
manuscripts
sources
translation by Poletika		 Summary: The article presents the fi rst of its kind analysis of the treatise “Tablet” attributed to the Greek philosopher Cebes of Thebes and translated by Antiochus Cantemir from French into Russian. The fi rst part of the article discusses the preserved manuscripts of this translation and identifi es the sources that Cantemir built his translation upon. The author comes to the conclusion that Cantemir used the French translation made by Gilles Boileau and the Greek original’s edition of 1711. Then the author analyzes the specifi c features of Cantemir’s translation, comparing this text with Gilles Boileau’s French translation and the translation made by Grigoriy Poletika. It is concluded that the infl uence of the syntax of the French translation and its dialogicality is manifested in Cantemir’s translation.



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