Krupp, József2024-09-242024-09-242025-09-01Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 60 (2024) , 179–191.0418-453Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/380397Szilárd Borbély (1963–2014) wrote long narrative poems in the last years of his life. The poems and the novel Nincstelenek ( The Dispossessed , 2013) depict the life of a family in an East Hungarian village during the author's childhood years. In constructing the literary landscape, Borbély draws on ancient myths to paint a hierarchical picture of the village from a socio-economic perspective. Borbély planned to publish the poems under the title Bukolikatájban. Idÿllek ( In a Bucolic Land. Idylls ), although these are rather a palinody of a pastoral idyll. This essay examines how Borbély uses the word "gods" in the poems. Two poems ( The Deucalion Collective Farm, Echo on the Veranda ) serve as examples to show the role the reception of myth played in the construction of the "bucolic" world.application/pdfRezeption der AntikeMythenrezeptionGötterBukolikDeukalionEchofolyóiratcikkOpen AccessActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensishttps://doi.org/10.22315/ACD/2024/15Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis60Acta Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.2732-3390