CRIMEA AS A TOPOS IN THE PARADIGM OF MYTHOLOGY: POSTCOLONIAL UNDERSTANDING OF SYMBOLIC SPACE
Journal: Epistemological Studies in Philosophy Social and Political Sciences
Year: 2025

This article examines Crimea as a topos – a cultural, philosophical, and historical space – through the dynamics of its representation in three major discourses: Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar, and Russian. The authors trace how the symbolic image of the peninsula has transformed across these traditions. Special attention is devoted to the evolution of the Crimean mythologem in Russian political and cultural imagination—from Byzantine precedents to its incorporation into contemporary political ideolog