Abstract
The paper offers some reflections on the role of antiquity as one of the hermeneutical techniques for negotiating the semantic ambiguity inherent in modernist texts. The Theodosia cycle was chosen to exemplify this idea for several reasons. First of all, its Tauride locus directly refers to the heritage of Antiquity ; moreover, it is rooted in the modernist poetics brought about by Silver Age culture, and finally, it is part and parcel of Mandel’stam’s creative heritage. By reconstructing the context, antiquity adds to our understanding of the works (of the narrator’s personality, of the “material world” of Theodosia, the interpretation of Crimean events of the 1920s, etc.).
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