AENEAS, THE CULTURAL FATHER AND SPIRIT IN VIRGIL, DANTE AND KOTLIAREV’SKY
Journal: Inozenma Philologia
Year: 2019

The purpose of this comparative analysis of the three poets separated by time, languages, ethnicity and history is to defi ne their shared European cultural identity and continental belonging. The paper underscores Europeannes of Virgil, the Mantua, Dante, the Florentine, and Kotlliarevs’ky from Poltava whose common roots take them in the Graeco-Roman antiquity. Aeneas, the legendary Homeric character, happens to be their common cultural and poetic foundation, the “spiritual father.” The pagan G