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Eneida () is a burlesque poem in the Ukrainian language, written by Ivan Kotliarevsky in 1798. This mock-heroic poem is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in the Ukrainian vernacular. The talented depiction of various elements of the life of the Ukrainians in the context of language, history, traditions and everyday life brought the poem great success among contemporaries, caused many imitations, and led to the final displacement of the old literary language from the literary use by the vernacular.
Eneida is a parody of Virgil Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Troy heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks. It is a loose retellingGasparov, M.L. Ocherk istorii yevropeyskogo stiha. (Очерк истории европейского стиха) — Moscow: "Nauka", 1989. — p.304 — ISBN 5-02-011352-2. Also available online
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> here, archived from the original on Dec. 14, 2017. Accessed Sept. 24, 2024.Bestuzhev-Marlinskiy, A.A. Vzglyad na staruyu i novuyu slovesnost' v Rossii (Взгляд на старую и новую словесность в России). 1826. "В шутовском роде (burlesque) известны у нас Майков и Осипов. Первый (р. 1725, ум. 1778 г.) оскорбил образованный вкус своею поэмою "Елисей". Второй, в "Энеиде" наизнанку, довольно забавен и оригинален. Ее же на малороссийское наречие с большею удачею переложил Котляревский." (Translation: In the burlesque genre, we know Maikov and Osipov. The first (b. 1725, d. 1778) offended educated taste with his poem "Elysey". The second, in his "Aeneid" inside out, is quite funny and original. Kotlyarevsky translated it into the Little Russian dialect with greater success.). Accessed Sept. 24, 2024. Archived from the original Mar. 12, 2016. of N. P. Osipov's 1791 (), written in Russian; the latter being a free translation of Aloys Blumauer Virgils Aeneis, travestiert (1784), which in turn hails back to Paul Scarron 1648 poem Virgile travesti. Critics believe that it was written in the light of the destruction of Zaporozhian Host by the order of Catherine the Great. The poem was written during the formation of romanticism and nationalism in Europe. At that time, part of the Ukrainian elite was gripped by nostalgia for the Cossack time.
The first three parts of the poem were published in 1798 in St. Petersburg, without the author's knowledge. The complete Eneida was published after Kotliarevsky's death in 1842.
The poem is in top-100 list by "From Skovoroda to modern time: 100 most important works in Ukrainian". Від Сковороди до сьогодення: 100 знакових творів українською мовою
He said that the fate of Aeneas had already been decided — he would go to Rome to "build a strong kingdom", "drive the whole world into serfdom" and "they will all be leaders". After long wanderings, the Trojans reached Carthage, where Dido ruled. The queen fell in love with Aeneas and walked with him so that he forgot about his main goal — the construction of Rome. Zeus, accidentally looking at the earth from Olympus, saw this, got angry and sent Mercury to remind Aeneas of his appointment. Aeneas and the Trojans fled Carthage at night, and Dido burned herself with grief.
Aeneas and his Trojans sail to the island ruled by the Latin king. Together with his wife Amata, he is going to marry his daughter Lavinia to Turnus. Meanwhile, Aeneas sends soldiers on reconnaissance. They tell him that the locals speak Latin. Aeneas and his army learn Latin in a week. Then Aeneas sends the king inns and he receives the Cossacks with honors, wishing that Aeneas became his son-in-law. Meanwhile, Juno, seeing that Aeneas is already allowing himself too much, decides to give him a good lesson for his impudent behavior.
The goddess sends Erinyes, who inhabits first Amata and then visit Turnus. Turnus sees a dream in which his future bride chooses Aeneas as her fiancé. Offended, he sends a letter to the Latin king, declaring war. Aeneas' army accidentally drops Greyhound on Amata's nanny's dog. In turn, she begins to turn people against Aeneas. The Latin people are preparing for war.
Aeneas sacrifices to the gods and goes to Evander. He agrees to help and sends his son Pallant with the army. Venus asks Vulcan the blacksmith to make her son Aeneas a strong weapon.
Juno sends a maid to warn Turnus about a possible attack by Aeneas and advises to strike first. He besieges the Trojan fortress, but can not take it. Then he burns the Trojan fleet. Venus complains to Cybella (mother of the gods), and she, in turn, complains to Zeus. The supreme god turns the ships of the Trojans into sirens, and the Rutuls flee in fear. Then there was silence again. Nyz and Evrial, young warriors, are on guard. Nyz offers to get into the Rutul camp and beat the enemies. He wants to do it himself, because Evrial has an old mother, and he has no one. However, his comrade does not agree, and they go together. Nyz and Evrial showed great courage, cut out many enemies, and when they returned, they came across Latins going to their camp. The young men try to hide in the woods, but the Latins tracked them down, surrounded the forest, from which "you can not slip away", and began to look for a "brave couple". When Evrial was caught, Nyz climbed a willow tree, dropped his spear, and thus revealed himself. Colonel Wolsent executed Evrial, and Nyz thrust his sword into the enemy and fell in battle.
A fierce battle begins. Turnus goes with the army to the assault fortress, and the Trojans bravely defend themselves; Juno intervenes again and defends Turnus. The Rutuls are beating the Trojans and they already want to leave the fortress. Then the artillery chief begins to embarrass them, to remind them that Aeneas "considers us soldiers, the grandchildren of the most glorious grandfathers". The embarrassed Trojans rallied and went on the offensive, and Turnus fled.
At this time, Aeneas sails on a ship with Pallant to help the Trojans. When everyone is asleep, he thinks about how to defeat Turnus. Suddenly he sees a mavka in the water. She tells him that Turnus and his soldiers have already started fighting the Trojans and nearly burned their fleet. Aeneas rushes to the rescue and immediately rushes into battle. Turnus kills the brave Pallant. Jul tells Aeneas what had happened in his absence.
Zeus, drunk, goes to apologize to his wife Juno. She deceived God with her cunning and put him to sleep. Juno turned into the image of Aeneas and lured Turnus to the ship so that he would sail home and not die.
The next day, Aeneas buried the dead. Envoys from Latin came to him. He tells them that he is not fighting against the Latins, but against Turnus, and offers to arrange a one-on-one duel with him. The ambassadors liked it and they retold the words of Aeneas to Latin and Turnus. The latter reluctantly prepares for a duel. Amata opposes the marriage of her daughter and Turnus, because she is secretly in love with him.
The next day, both sides took up positions to watch the battle. Juno sends Juturna to help Turnus. She starts a fight between the Trojans and the Rutuls again. Aeneas was wounded during the skirmish. Venus collects for him all sorts of potions that help heal the wound.
Thinking that Turn is dead, Amata decides to hang himself. This news frightened everyone. Aeneas goes to a duel with Turn, knocks him out of the sword. Juno, with the hand of Juturna, gives Turnus another sword. For this, Zeus quarrels with Juno and says: "We have already told all the gods: Aeneas will be with us in Olympus to eat the same pies that I tell you to bake." The duel continues. Having knocked Turnus to the ground, Aeneas is going to kill him, but Rutul's words touched his heart. Suddenly he notices Pallant's armor on Turnus' body and kills him.
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