Eneyida

work by Kotlyarevsky

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The Eneida, written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky in 1798, is a significant work in Ukrainian literature. It is a burlesque-travesty of Virgil's Aeneid, reimagining Aeneas and the Trojans as dispossessed Cossacks following the suppression of the Zaporizhska Sich in 1775. This work is notable for being the first piece written entirely in the Ukrainian language, establishing Kotlyarevsky as the father of modern Ukrainian literature. The Eneida incorporates diverse linguistic elements from various Ukrainian vernaculars.12

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In his work Eneyida (1798), he transformed the heroes of Virgil’s Aeneid into Ukrainian Cossacks. Classicist prose appeared only with Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s novel Marusya (1834).
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In his work Eneyida (1798), he transformed the heroes of Virgil’s Aeneid into Ukrainian Cossacks. Classicist prose appeared only with Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s novel Marusya (1834).
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