Alexander the Great’s “Argolai” and “Lenii Levi”: On the Difficulties of Translation of The Life of the Prophet Jeremiah into Russian

This article, bearing on facts and data from ancient mythology, a novel about Alexander the Great and other Greek-Latin sources, as well as taking into account Greek and Slavic etymology, folk, and ritual customs, reveals the possible serpentine meaning of the words “Argolai” and “lenii levi.” The w...

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Main Author: Vladimir M. Kirillin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2020-09-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2020-5-3/Kirillin.pdf