Ausonius’ Caesares
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Ausonius, Caesares, Suetonius, Kaisergeschichte, Marius Maximus, biography in verse, Late Antiquity
Abstract
Ausonius from Burdigala (Bordeaux) writes between 379-383 CE his poetic work entitled Caesares. This poetic collection is a biography of emperors’s life in verse (in hexameter and elegiac couplets). Caesares are not complete; the work stops suddenly at the incomplete quatrain of Elagabalus. In this paper we are dealing with the kind of collection, we examine Ausonius’ style of various parts (Monosticha and Tetrasticha) and highlight the sources of the poet (Suetonius, Tacitus, Kaisergeschichte, Marius Maximus etc.). Also, we discuss the assumptions which Ausonius’ scholars have made about the lost part of this collection.Downloads
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Published
2016-05-03
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Pappas V. (2016). Ausonius’ Caesares. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos, 36(1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CFCL.2016.v36.n1.52542
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