The Functions of the Classical Images in the Ukrainian Baroque Poetry

Abstract

The article deals with the characteristic of the ancient Greek and Rome discourse reception in the old Ukrainian literature. The paradigm of the antique images functioning in it is exposed with the focus on the Ukrainian poetry of the XVII-XVIII-th c. The aesthetic modus of the creative classical antiquity reproduction in the Ukrainian baroque period is represented by the didactic principle, stylistic search, syntheses of pagan and Christian categories. The specific features of the national variant of the ancient mythological structures artistic interpretation are exposed as well.