Ausonius Grammaticus : : The Christening of Philology in the Late Roman West / / Lionel Yaceczko.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Yaceczko, Lionel,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics ; 78
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; Chapter One. Introduction: Ausonius, Biography, and Personal Poetry in the Fourth Century --; Chapter Two. New Wine in Old Wineskins: Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Establishment of a Christian Culture --; Chapter Three. Ausonius of Bordeaux: Old Wine in Old Wineskins --; Chapter Four. Ausonius of Trier: The Mosella as Poetry of Court and Campaign --; Chapter Five. Ausonius of Rome: The Cupido Cruciatus as Personal Poetry in the Classical Tradition --; Chapter Six. Iugum Discutimus: Ausonius, Paulinus, and Henri Irénée Marrou --; Conclusion. From φιλόλογοι to θεολόγοι: Word-lovers to Worshipers of the Word --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463242817; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754193; 9783110753974; 9783110743302
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463242817
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lionel Yaceczko.

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-Irénée 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.