REDEN ZU GOTT, BETEN ZU GÖTTERN
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Nicola Hömke
Abstract
For the occasion of his consulate in AD 379, Ausonius composed inter alia three hexameter Precationes and one Gratiarum actio addressed to the Emperor Gratian. Despite the shared context, in these three texts Ausonius presents entirely different ideas of the divine: on the one hand a polytheistic outlook with Phoebus, Tritonia and Victoria in prec. 1 and Ianus, Annus and Sol in prec. 2, but on the other hand in the Gratiarumactio a god who is clearly characterised as monotheistic (but not explicitly Christian), an aeternus omniumgenitor and opifex et causa mundi.
Rather than pursue the scholarly debate about Ausonius’ own ambivalent religious outlook, this paper examines the decisive role which the context of speech, the conventions of literary genre and the rhetorical strategy play in the question of which model of god Ausonius presents in each case and how he addresses the god(s).
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- THE RHETORICAL FUNCTION OF THE PERFECT IN CLASSICAL GREEK
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- SUL TESTO DI CATULLO 2, 5–8
- ZWEI NEUE DICHTERZITATE BEIM ALTEN CATO
- REDEN ZU GOTT, BETEN ZU GÖTTERN
- HENRICH HUDEMANN (ca. 1595–1628) – HOLSTEINS HORAZ
- MISZELLEN
- A POETIC ETYMOLOGY OF A NAME IN PIND. P. 4. 156–158
- NOTE AI PERSIANI DI ESCHILO
- CREATING ROOM FOR DOUBT
Articles in the same Issue
- Inhalt
- ATTHIS, GYRINNO, AND OTHER HETAIRAI: FEMALE PERSONAL NAMES IN SAPPHO’S POETRY
- ANTIGONE’S LANGUAGE OF DEATH AND POLITICS IN THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES
- THE RHETORICAL FUNCTION OF THE PERFECT IN CLASSICAL GREEK
- LE PRÉTENDU ÉLOGE DE LA CHEVELURE DE DION DE PRUSE: OEUVRE DE PURE RHÉTORIQUE OU DÉCLARATION DE FOI PHILOSOPHIQUE?
- DUE FRAMMENTI DI PARODIA FILOSOFICO-RELIGIOSA: I FRR. 582a–b E 583 B DELLE MENIPPEE DI VARRONE
- SUL TESTO DI CATULLO 2, 5–8
- ZWEI NEUE DICHTERZITATE BEIM ALTEN CATO
- REDEN ZU GOTT, BETEN ZU GÖTTERN
- HENRICH HUDEMANN (ca. 1595–1628) – HOLSTEINS HORAZ
- MISZELLEN
- A POETIC ETYMOLOGY OF A NAME IN PIND. P. 4. 156–158
- NOTE AI PERSIANI DI ESCHILO
- CREATING ROOM FOR DOUBT
