Boris Kayachev

Biographic Data

ID2410741
NAMEBoris Kayachev
GIVEN NAMESBoris
FAMILY NAMEKayachev
SIGNATUREKAYACHEV B
AFFILIATIONSTrinity College Dublin
ORCID0000-0002-2721-1575
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR36
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 6

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2026

    This article discusses a handful of passages from the sixth book of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica , proposing some twenty new conjectures, while repeating the claim that the poem is in need of thorough textual reappraisal.

  • Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 7

    Boris KayachevARTICLEMnemosyne2025

    The article offers a handful of new conjectures for the Latin text of book 7 of Valerius’ Argonautica , as well as reviving a couple of old proposals that have been forgotten in current scholarship. In doing so, it aims to demonstrate that Valerius’ text still remains far more problematic than recent editions and commentaries might let one believe

  • Valerius Flaccus 2.450

    Boris KayachevARTICLEMnemosyne2025

  • Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 8

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2024

    The article makes a case for a thorough reappraisal of the text of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica by discussing a number of textual problems in Book 8. It proposes some twenty new conjectures, as well as reviving six old ones that seem to have been undeservedly forgotten

  • Emendations in Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Book 8 – Corrigenda

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2024

    On page 8 of the article, in the first line, instead of: I suggest we should take ipsi quoque murmura ponti-which would be a fitting climax

  • Emendations in Valerius Flaccus Argonautica Book 4

    Boris KayachevARTICLEPhoenix2024

    The paper tackles about a dozen passages from Book 4 of Valerius' Argonautica , arguing that the poem's text remains full of unsolved problems. Abstract: Cet article aborde une douzaine de passages tirés du livre 4 des Argonautiques de Valerius Flaccus. Il soutient que le texte du poème fourmille de problèmes non résolus à ce jour

  • Pseudepigrapha Latina: Lydia: a Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

    Boris ca /21 Jh Kayachev, Boris KayachevEDITORBOOKLydia, a Poem from the Appendix…2023

  • Lucretius 6.391

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2023References: 5

    This article argues that at Lucr. 6.391 ( icti flammas ut fulguris halent ) fulguris is a corruption, and proposes to read sulpuris instead. While the case against fulguris may in itself not be incontrovertible, the advantages of sulpuris include the acquisition of a new Homeric intertext in Il. 8.135 δεινὴ δὲ φλὸξ ὦρτο θεείου καιομένοιο

  • Non-discontinuous adjective-noun phrases in Latin poetry

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEJournal of Latin Linguistics2022

    In many respects Latin poetry deviates from the linguistic norms of prose; such deviations are often attributed to non-linguistic factors, with the result that the language of Latin poetry is more often studied by literary scholars than by linguists. A frequent poetic phenomenon are discontinuous adjective-noun phrases, which tend to be explained by appeal to various artistic considerations. The present contribution argues that syntactic disconti…

  • The New Orphic Fragments from Mount Sinai

    Boris KayachevARTICLEArchiv für Papyrusforschung und…2022

    The article offers a rereading of recently published fragments of an Orphic poem discovered in a palimpsest from the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai (Sin. ar. NF 66). In particular, it establishes that fragments 1-2 narrate a scene from Aphrodite’s catabasis to the underworld in search for Dionysus, as well as clarifying details of the account of the Titans’ attempt to lure Dionysus out in fragments 3-4

  • Moretvm 45

    Boris KayachevARTICLEClassical Philology2022

    This paper argues that the text of Moretum 45, transuersat durata manu liquidoque coacta (“kneads (?) the dough made firm and dense with his hand and water”), has two problems: first, the asyndetic conjunction with the preceding line is harsh; second, the verb transuersare is otherwise unattested in classical Latin and does not produce a plausible sense here. Both problems are simultaneously solved by writing et uersat: “and keeps turning over th…

  • Emendations in the Dirae and the Lydia

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2022References: 3

    This article argues that the text of the Dirae and the Lydia is even more corrupt than current editions give reason to believe, and attempts to emend about a dozen passages

  • Emendations in Columella, De Re Rvstica Book 10

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2022References: 2

    Columella's poem on horticulture, which forms Book 10 of his prose treatise De re rustica , has predominantly been edited by experts in agricultural writings rather than in Latin poetry, leaving many textual problems unsolved or even unrecognized. This article discusses a number of passages and proposes some thirty emendations

  • Variant readings in the so-called Tbilisi hymn to Dionysus

    Boris KayachevARTICLEArchiv für Papyrusforschung und…2021

    The papyrus on which the so-called Tbilisi hymn to Dionysus survives (P. Ross. Georg. I 11 [LDAB 4911 = MP3 01861.000]) is remarkable for preserving, along with the hymn’s text, a number of marginal and interlinear variant readings, which, interpreted as authorial variants, have led to the conclusion that the papyrus represents an autograph draft. As the present study argues, it is in fact more likely that the variants belong to a copyist or revi…

  • A Green Sky and a Green Sun? (Pliny, Hn 17.74 and Manilius 2.941)

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2021

    This article considers two passages in which either the sky (Plin. HN 17.74) or the sun (Manilius 2.941) is described as ‘green’; it argues that in both cases such a colour epithet is out of place and proposes to correct uiridi caelo to nitido caelo in the former case, and uiridis ... Phoebus to rutilus ... Phoebus in the latter

  • Greek and Latin Love

    Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Peter Astrup Sundt et al.BOOKGreek and Latin Love2021

  • Ciris

    Open AccessBoris KayachevBOOKCiris2020

  • Catalepton 9 and Valgius Rufus

    Boris KayachevCHAPTERConstructing Authors and Readers…2020

    The chapter explores connections between Catalepton 9, an anonymous elegy from the Appendix Vergiliana , and Valgius Rufus, a poet of the late Republican and early Augustan period, of whose poetic output only a few fragments survive: it is suggested that either Catalepton 9 closely engages with Valgius’ poetry or is possibly a work of his. A date of composition of about 36 BC was tentatively proposed for Catalepton 9 in Kayachev (2016a). In the p…

  • Columella 10.101

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2020References: 1

    Columella invites his readers to plant different flowers, including violets—which will be the main focus of the following discussion (10.94–102): uerum ubi iam puro discrimine pectita tellus deposito squalore nitens sua semina poscet, 95 pangite tunc uarios, terrestria sidera, flores: candida leucoia et flauentia lumina caltae, narcissique comas et hiantis saeua leonis ora feri, calathisque uirentia lilia canis, necnon uel niueos uel caeruleos hy…

  • The Poet's Ivy

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2020References: 4

    Like most other fragments of Nicander's Georgica , fr. 74 is preserved by Athenaeus, who presents it as a catalogue of flowers used for making wreaths (15.683a Νίκανδρος δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ Γεωργικῶν καταλέγων καὶ αὐτὸς στεφανωτικὰ ἄνθη). Transmitted in the only independent manuscript of the fuller text of Athenaeus (A, cod. Ven. Marc. 447), the fragment's text is extremely corrupt, which, coupled with its technical subject matter and intricate style, …

  • [Tibullus] 3.7.175

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2020References: 4

    The anonymous panegyrist concludes his prediction of Messalla's future achievements by prophesying that, after his deeds are duly honoured with triumphs, Messalla will be titled the Great (175–6): ergo ubi praeclaros poscent tua facta triumphos, 175 solus utroque idem diceris magnus in orbe. 175 praeclaros A : per claros Scaliger | poscent A : ierint F : tulerint Dyer : cierint Lachmann : noscent uel scierint Postgate : peperint Nencini Line 175 …

  • Emendations in the Einsiedeln Eclogues

    Boris KayachevARTICLEMnemosyne2019

  • Hunt as War and War as Hunt

    Boris KayachevBOOKGrattius2018

    This chapter argues for a deeper intellectual engagement between Grattius and Virgil’s Aeneid than has been posited by some previous scholars, who argue that Grattius borrows words and phrases from Virgil in a somewhat sporadic and magpie-like fashion. The discussion focuses upon key hunting passages and hunter figures in the epic: the figure of Camilla, Aeneas as hunter, the Trojans’ stay on the Strophades, and Allecto’s incitement of the war in…

  • Silius Italicus 12.685

    Boris KayachevARTICLEMnemosyne2018

  • Dirae 15

    Open AccessBoris KayachevARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2018References: 1

    Here, too, it may initially appear reasonable to see in uobis the same group of people, but there is little doubt that it must refer to senis nostri felicia rura , which can hardly be anything but a vocative (cf. 33 ueteris domini felicia ligna , likewise a vocative). If condatis does not refer to people, one may be tempted to accept the humanist conjecture sulci and construe the verb as addressed to the furrows. Yet I rather doubt that an addres…