This essay is an outgrowth of the topic considered in the previous articles devoted to the image of ancient and modern Rome in Federico Fellini’s films, in which an attempt to analyze several Homeric motifs in Fellini Satyricon was made. The Italian film director acknowledged that he had dreamed to make a film based on the European ‘Book of Books’, Homer’s duology - the Iliad and the Odyssey - about the heroes of the Trojan cycle of myths. Other coincidences in Fellini and Homer constitute the object of this study. Deliberate? Fortuitous? Archetypic? Fanciful? The very wording of the topic - Fellini Satyricon as Fellini’s ‘Iliad’ - is provocative. The article identifies and discusses the parallels and intersections in the works of the two great masters - the Ancient Greek poet and the classic of Italian cinematograph, who lived almost three millennia apart.
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)326-351
JournalВЕСТНИК РУССКОЙ ХРИСТИАНСКОЙ ГУМАНИТАРНОЙ АКАДЕМИИ
Volume20
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • "Илиада", "Одиссея", "Сатирикон Феллини", Achilles, ancient Rome, Ascyltos, Encolpius, ethos, Excursus, Fellini, Fellini Satyricon, Homer, Iliad, Italian cinematograph, leitmotifs, lovers/frater, Odysseus, Odyssey, parallels, Patroclus, structure, the hero's wrath, topoi, Trojan cycle of myths, Аскилт, ахилл, гнев героя, Гомер, древний Рим, итальянский кинематограф, лейтмотивы, любовники/frater, одиссей, параллели, Патрокл, структура, топосы, Троянский цикл мифов, Феллини, экскурсы, Энколпий

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