Open AccessΟι "Caesares" του Αυσονίου. Παρατηρήσεις και επισημάνσεις
Author(s) -
Βασίλειος Παππάς
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
vyzantina symmeikta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1792-0450
pISSN - 1791-4884
DOI - 10.12681/byzsym.1191
Subject(s) - elegiac , exposition (narrative) , poetry , literature , style (visual arts) , trace (psycholinguistics) , art , history , philosophy , classics , linguistics
Ausonius was a latin poet, born in Burdigala (Bordeaux), who, inter alios , composed the poetic work entitled "Caesares" between 379-383 A.D. This collection is an exposition of the lives of Roman emperors in verse (in hexameter and elegiac couplets). The collection is not complete. The work stops suddenly at the incomplete quatrain of Elagabalus. In this paper the author deals with the literary genre of the collection, the style of the poem, while he also attempts to trace the texts the poet used (Suetonius, Tacitus, the so[called Kaisergeschichte , Marius Maximus etc.). Finally he refers to the proposals concerning the missing part of the collection as put forth by various scholars in recent years.