Despite a certain reluctance to highlight relevant aspects of his biographical profile, Claudian occasionally outlines traits of his artistic personality within some of his prefatory elegiac couplets preceding the hexameter poems delivered on public occasions (Ruf. 1, nupt., Stil. 3), as well as in several compositions included in the collection of the so called carmina minora (carm. min. 3, 14, 21-23, 25). This paper examines the information that the late antique Latin poet provides about himself, often associating it with literary issues, in which, proudly asserting his role as vates, he reveals that when he speaks in the first person, he almost always does so in relation to his poetic activity.
University of Rome Tre, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1525-6861
Titolo del capitolo
Carmina sola loquor: Claudiano e la rappresentazione di sé come poeta
Autori
Angelo Luceri
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.10
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Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina
Sottotitolo del libro
Atti dell’International Workshop - Siena, 13 e 14 giugno 2024
Curatori
Filomena Giannotti, Daniele Di Rienzo
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
240
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0675-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0676-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0677-8
Collana
Studi di Antichistica