
In lode di Antemio
L’ultimo panegirico di Roma imperiale
- Series: Saggi di Storia Antica, 44
- Pages and Illustrations: 272
- Publication Year: 2021
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Il volume offre la prima traduzione italiana, con introduzione e commento, dei due carmi che Sidonio Apollinare dedic
This book offers the first Italian translation, with introduction and commentary, of the two carmina which Sidonius Apollinaris dedicated to Anthemius for his second consulate: the panegyric in hexameters and its preface in elegiac couplets. This text, opening Sidonius poetic collection, constitutes the last imperial panegyric in the history of the Roman West. Its verses, wanted by the emperor and declaimed before the senators, were to convey the official image of the new regime, which had just been settled (spring 467) after almost two years of interregnum. Not only does the analysis of the panegyric allow us to grasp essential aspects of Antemius profile, but more generally it sheds light on the balances of power between the protagonists of the political life of Rome (Anthemius, Ricimer, the Senate), on the relations with Constantinople, and on the tensions that stirred the central Mediterranean on the eve of 476.
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