Петко Славейков, Атанасиос Христопулос и предизвикателството на анакреонтичните мотиви
Petko Slaveykov, Atanasios Hristopolus and the Challenge of Anacreontic Motives

Summary/Abstract: This article studies the echoes of Anacreontic motifs in the poetry of Petko Slaveikov, inspired mainly by the poems of Athanasios Christopoulos. The endurance of the literary devices, used to express feelings of love is studied here in ancient authors, such as Anacreon and Sappho, through the European Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and in the works of Romantics, to early Bulgarian Modernists like Kiril Christov and Dimitar Boyadjiev. The perseverance of motifs throughout the centuries and in different literatures is presented as bound to songs in their role as a cultural practice. Anacreontic motifs, resurrected in the Balkans during the 19th century, have filled а void and have constructed a link with the Western notions of love discourse.

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