
Ausonius of Rome
Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Establishment of a Christian Culture in the Late Roman West
Lionel Yaceczko(Author)
Gorgias Press
Published on 1. October 2021
Book
Hardback
253 pages
978-1-4632-4280-0 (ISBN)
Description
The present volume describes the rich and complex world in which Ausonius (c. 310-395) lived and worked, from his humble beginnings as a schoolteacher in Bordeaux, to the heights of his influence as quaestor to the Emperor Gratian, at a time of unsettling social and religious change. As a teacher and poet Ausonius adhered to the traditions of classical paideia, standing in contrast to the Fathers of the Church, e.g., Jerome, Augustine, and Paulinus of Nola, who were emboldened by the legalization, then the imposition, of Christianity in the course of the fourth century. For this position he was labeled by the 20th-century scholar Henri-Irenee Marrou a symbol of decadence. Guided by Marrou's critical insights to both his own time and place and that of Ausonius, this book proposes a hermeneutic for reading Ausonius as both a fourth-century poet and a fascinating mirror for his 20th-century counterparts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Piscataway
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4632-4280-0 (9781463242800)
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