Homeric Formulae and Citations and Neoplatonic Terminology in Alexei Losev’s and Aza Takho-Godi’s Ancient Greek and Latin Epigrams to Sergei Radzig and Tatiana Vasilieva

In this article we are publishing for the first time four epigrams in Ancient Greek and Latin by Russian classicists Alexei Losev (1893–1988) and Aza Takho-Godi (born 1922), dedicated to Sergei Radzig (1882–1968) and Tatiana Vasilieva (1942–2002), who herself was a notable Neo-Latin poet. The epigrams are provided with a critical apparatus, a Russian translation and a commentary. The analysis of vocabulary and linguistic features of the epigrams revealed the use of epic formulae as well as Homeric and Horatian quotations in a light pseudo-Hellenistic spirit. Traits of Losev’s individual literary style manifest via incorporation of Neoplatonic terminology into the Homeric language of the poems.