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.
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Chapter Title
L’Ephemeris di Ausonio e l’autobiografia del quotidiano: riflessioni a partire da un’analisi del carme 1
Authors
Silvia Mattiacci
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.11
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina
Book Subtitle
Atti dell’International Workshop - Siena, 13 e 14 giugno 2024
Editors
Filomena Giannotti, Daniele Di Rienzo
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Number of Pages
240
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Studi di Antichistica