Catullian Echoes in the Late Ancient Poetry: The Case of Ausonius
Abstract
In the late-republican literary context, the poetry of Catullus represents the achievement of a creative maturity that assimilated and transformed the previous poetics based on an original «policy of the rhythm». Additionally, the importance of the catullian work lies in the building of a book by which he gave real entity to his works in order to hold them in a physical format which he called libellus.
This idea of «textual artifact» as an instrument of representation of the poetic experience reappears among late antiquity authors, particularly in the Gallo-Roman poet Ausonius Decimus (s. IV a. C.), in whom the concern is warned by reflecting around the metaliterary and programmatic elements, extrapolated many of Catullus’ Carmina.
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