THE MYTHOLOGEM “PHRYNE” (IN THE BULGARIAN LITERARY CONTEXT) Cover Image

МИТОЛОГЕМАТА „ФРИНА“ (БЪЛГАРСКИ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕН КОНТЕКСТ)
THE MYTHOLOGEM “PHRYNE” (IN THE BULGARIAN LITERARY CONTEXT)

Author(s): Tsvetana Georgieva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: Phryne; Kalokagathia; Pencho Slaveykov; Bulgarian literature

Summary/Abstract: The plot “Phryne” is a product of Ancient Greece. It is formed as a social myth about 390–330 BC. The mythological storyline “Phryne” is interpreted in the poem under the same name by Pencho Slaveikov “Phryne” (1892). Pencho Slaveikov's modernist idea of Beauty's Apotheosis is in harmony with the Hellenic notion of beauty – Kalokagathia. For the interpretation of the concept of Kalokagathia – Losev and Plato. After the Pencho-Slaveykov's “Phryne” in Bulgarian literature, the heroine Phryne appeared in Peter Slavinski's eponymous play (1935) and was also found in the play by Stefan Tsanev “Other Death of Jeanne d'Arc” (1989–1990), as well as in the novel “Martina” by Victor Paskov (1986).

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 102-108
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian