Sobria Musa ? Ausone, l’épigramme obscène et l’héritage martialien

Although asserting that his Muse is “sober”, Ausonius inserts obscene texts into his book of epigrams and thus seems to imitate Martial. But he does so by distancing himself from Martial’s apologetic theory and by playing with it. Through imitations, the poet creates his own way of writing obscene epigrams, which we examine here in detail; typical of the late latinity, his literary position mixes theoretical casualness and moral severity, and eventually gets closer (at least lexically) to Juvenal’s satire and sobriety

Art · Humanities · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy

• Les bornes du comique dans quelques épigrammes sexuelles d’Ausone et de Claudien

  Open Access•Adrien Bresson•Méthodos•2023

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