АНТИЧНЫЙ СТОИЦИЗМ В РУССКОЙ ПЕРИОДИКЕ XIX ВЕКА: ОСОБЕННОСТИ РЕЦЕПЦИИ

Abstract

The scope of the study is the history of the reception of the Stoic legacy in Russian periodicals (journals, newspapers, collections of works) published during the 19th century. As to the character and content of publications written in the early 19th century and devoted to the Stoics, they continued the traditions of the 18th century. They retained edifying and entertaining character, demonstrating sometimes the lack of scholarship and originality. A landmark event that sparked an interest in the Stoics among educated Russian public was the broad discussion in a number of major journals and newspapers about the works of G. Boissier, C. Martha, and E. Renan translated into Russian or published in 1879–1881. In the last decades of the 19th century, periodicals in Russia contributed to the maintenance of interest in the philosophers of Portico as well. On the pages of journals and newspapers, moral strategies and religious views of the Stoics were extolled and overthrown; new translations of Stoic texts and critical works on the Stoics were actively discussed; certain aspects of Stoic ideas came into the focus of attention of publicists of various kinds – from revolutionaries to scholars and theologians. Due to the fact that periodicals had their own specificity, distinct from works written for scholars or students, they played an important role in shaping the reception of the Stoics in Russian society. They also contributed to the processes of forming a sound base for further Stoic (and more broadly, Ancient) studies in Russia in the early 20th century.