Античность как геном европейской и российской культуры

AGON AS THE GREEK ”GENOME” TO THE EUROPEAN CULTURE105of Heroes was impossible to return back. He wrote: “Heroism is impossi-ble now. We need to make conclusions: the depressed people need heroes, philosophers studied them, and poets dreamed about them, but social life could not produce heroism anymore” (S.N., p.205). But in the 18th century ideology of Enlightenment tried to revive memory of Antiquity heroes. Robespierre in his revolutionary speeches in Convent mentioned the Greek and Roman heroes as examples for imita-tion for those , who wanted to build Republic in France. French paintings of this period, particularly special historical paintings of Jacques-Louis David , were full of images of heroes of Greece and Rome. French bour-geois made Revolution dressings in the style of antic costumes.Drama and poetry of the Classicism tried to revisit the world of an-cient mythology and antic heroes. Unfortunately, it was far away from a real ancient history. Among European poets, a Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was much closer to understanding ancient heroism. , He pre-served for Russian readers originality of Classical poetry. His poetry had many associations with Greek and Roman poetry. Pushkin’s relations to ancient poetry, to its heroic pathos is a great subject for studies in Russia and abroad. Roman Empire had a great territory, which needed a great army to defense and dominate. I think that the best image of militarism of Roman empire belongs to English poet Wystan Auden, who describes a Roman soldier on the wall, which was crossing Britain territory to save Roman army from the foreign invasions. Over the heater the wet wind blows,I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose.The rain comes pattering out of the sky,I am a Wall soldier, I don’t know why.The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,My girl’s in Tungria; I sleep alone.Aulus goes hanging around her place,I don’t like his manners, I don’t like his fact.Piso’s a Christian, he worship a fish;Ther...