Russian Silver-Age Galliambic Verse:Form and Meaning

Authors

  • Andrei Dobritsyn Faculty of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Bd. Victoriei nr. 10, 550024, Sibiu, Romania; l’Université de Lausanne, Section de langues et civilisations slaves et de l’Asie du Sud, Anthropole 4085, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7955-9621

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12697/smp.2025.12.1.02

Keywords:

Galliambic verse, metre and rhythm, Cybele, Attis, Catullus, Nietzsche, Russian Symbolism

Abstract

The article surveys the four known Russian examples of Galliambic verse – a syllabo-tonic counterpart of the Latin metre associated with the cult of Cybele, as in Catullus’ Attis: works by Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maximilian Voloshin, Nikolai Gumilev, and Georgij Adamovich – analyzing how metre, rhythm, and meaning interact in the rarest of Silver Age verse forms.

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Published

2025-10-25

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025)

Section

Articles