НЕКОТОРЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ АРХАИЧЕСКОЙ ГРЕЧЕСКОЙ ЛИРИКИ В НАУЧНОМ НАСЛЕДИИ О.М. ФРЕЙДЕНБЕРГ

Abstract

The article deals with some passages from several important works by O.M. Freidenderg, an outstanding Russian scholar, that are connected with issues of Archaic Greek lyric. With her views on that subject O.M. Freidenberg was much ahead of her time. Some of them now find parallels in postmodernist humanitarian studies. Being under influence of, on one hand, of N. Marr’s ideas, and, on the other hand, of the “Cambridge ritualistic school” in philology (J. Frazer, F. Cornford and others), O.M. Freidenberg in her works insisted on folklore origins of Ancient Greek lyric and genealogized it eventually to rituals. Accordingly, she was ready to minimize authorial principle in that lyric. Her thoughts on symposial context of Hellenic lyric poetry are of importance (nowadays, such a context is accepted unequivocally by scholars and is often researched). However, some Freidenberg’s theses seem to be wrong, as, for example, her suggestion to date Sappho’s verses almost a century later than is accepted, and her factual negation of the very historicity of the poetess.