This paper focuses on poem 1 (and partly 2) as a case study to assess the kind of autobiography depicted in Ausonius’ Ephemeris. Our analysis reveals a linguistic and metric poikilía, an interweaving of everyday life and sublime burlesque, based on the allusion to both satirical and lyrical-elegiac models. Though it is impossible to assign the Ephemeris to a specific literary genre, it is also misleading to reduce it to a scholastic work. In this original autobiography of daily life, Ausonius revisits, in a dramatized way, the literary scheme of the ordinatio diurna, as a form of ideal self-representation. As in the Bissula, he plays with the interaction of different genres and transposes onto a literary level the image of his domestic life, which is also an image of his skill as a poet.
University of Siena, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-7334-378X
Titolo del capitolo
L’Ephemeris di Ausonio e l’autobiografia del quotidiano: riflessioni a partire da un’analisi del carme 1
Autori
Silvia Mattiacci
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 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
Copyright
© 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