The essay takes into consideration the commemorative epigrams (epigr. 3-4 Green), commissioned to Ausonius, where the Danube conveys to Valens the news of the victories of the Emperor Valentinian against Suebi and Alamanni (367-369). Tracing literary sources, hitherto neglected by critics, we try to highlight a hidden imitation Alexandri: the allusion to the Macedonian conqueror could be reconstructed in a ring composition between the first distich of epigr. 3 and the last of epigr. 4, in which the hope that the emperor will find the sources of the Nile seems recall a belief that Alexander stood out in the geographical discovery.
Fontes ... quoque, Nile, tuos: un’occulta imitatio Alexandri in Auson. epigr. 3-4 Green?
Alessia Prontera
2024-01-01
Abstract
The essay takes into consideration the commemorative epigrams (epigr. 3-4 Green), commissioned to Ausonius, where the Danube conveys to Valens the news of the victories of the Emperor Valentinian against Suebi and Alamanni (367-369). Tracing literary sources, hitherto neglected by critics, we try to highlight a hidden imitation Alexandri: the allusion to the Macedonian conqueror could be reconstructed in a ring composition between the first distich of epigr. 3 and the last of epigr. 4, in which the hope that the emperor will find the sources of the Nile seems recall a belief that Alexander stood out in the geographical discovery.
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