Златните лъжици на знатния Каран (Манипулирана историческа памет в Стефан-Захариевия превод на Атеней, IV, 128a-130d)
Caranus’ Golden Spoons: Manipulated Historical Memory in Stefan Zahariev’s Translation of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae IV, 128c-130d

Summary/Abstract: Comparisons between translated texts and their originals can give us insight into the process of manipulation of historical memory in service of a certain ideology. In this paper, I propose to show the manipulative strategies which were adopted in the Bulgarian translation of an excerpt from Athenaeus’ work Deipnosophistae. The translation was made by Stefan Zahariev, a notable figure of the Bulgarians’ struggle for cultural emancipation, and was published in the influential magazine “Chitalishte” in 1871. The translated excerpt describes a sumptuous banquet given by Caranus, a rich Macedonian who lived in the 3rd century BC. One can easily establish that Zahariev shaped the reader’s reception of the text in an attempt to project an idealized image of the Ancient Macedonians’ cultural background. By doing so, he intended to boost his compatriots’ national consciousness and self-confidence through an example drawn from the remote past of the Balkans.

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