SYMMACHUS' VARRO: LATIN LETTERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY

IF 0.2 4区 历史学 0 CLASSICS
MICHELE RENEE SALZMAN
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Symmachus opened his first book of letters by writing to his father Avianius, whom he depicted as a ‘new Varro’ writing learned epigrams on seven famous men in imitation of Varro's lost work, the Hebdomades. Symmachus was not alone in using Varro's work as an intertext. Based on my study of allusions to Varro and his works by late-fourth and fifth-century writers, I argue that Christian polemicists renewed their attacks on the Augustan scholar in the last decades of the fourth century. Consequently, Symmachus' choice of Varro was a forceful response in support of Roman religious as well as literary traditions in the late 380s or early 390s, the period in which I would date the dissemination of the first book of Symmachus' letters and the conceptualization of his seven-book letter collection.

西马库斯的《古晚期的拉丁字母》
西马库斯的第一本书信是写给他的父亲阿维尼乌斯的,他把他描述为“新瓦罗”,他模仿瓦罗失传的作品《周报》,写了关于七位名人的警句。西马科斯并不是唯一使用瓦罗作品作为互文的人。根据我对四世纪晚期和五世纪作家对瓦罗及其作品的典故的研究,我认为基督教辩论家在四世纪的最后几十年重新开始攻击这位奥古斯都学者。因此,西马库斯选择瓦罗是对罗马宗教和文学传统的有力回应在380年代末或390年代初,我认为西马库斯第一部书信的传播和他的七卷书信集的概念化是在这个时期。
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