Ausonius at Night

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dc.citation.firstpage123en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleAmerican Journal of Philologyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage148en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber135en_US
dc.contributor.authorMcGill, Scotten_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-14T20:56:34Z
dc.date.available2014-04-14T20:56:34Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the fourth-century c.e. Ausonius' descriptions of himself as a nocturnal poet. Interest lies in passages where Ausonius relates that he wrote at night in order to play the part of the modest, self-deprecating author. Past scholarship has generally dismissed Ausonius' modesty as insincere and empty or stopped at identifying it with the captatio benevolentiae. I will go further in exploring the rhetorical dimensions of Ausonius' theme. The examination contributes to the study of paratextuality in Latin antiquity and to our understanding of Ausonius' authorial identity, of the functions he assigns to poetry, of his methods of shaping the reception of his work, and of his literary culture.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMcGill, Scott. "Ausonius at Night." <i>American Journal of Philology,</i> 135, no. 1 (2014) Johns Hopkins University Press: 123-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2014.0009.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2014.0009en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/75888
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Press
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