Ahasver in Rome

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Ahasver in Rome (originally published under the title Ahasverus in Rome ) is the best-known work of the Austrian writer Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), composed between January and April 1865. It is an epic poem in six chants, which the Emperor Nero with the figure of Ahasver , the " Eternal Jew ", identified. For Hamerling, Ahasver, the eternally striving, struggling and suffering person, is the symbol of all world pain. Hamerling portrays Nero as a Dionysian man thirsty for life .

The titles of the six chants

  1. Locusta's tavern
  2. The bacchanal
  3. Agrippina
  4. The fire
  5. The golden house
  6. Ahasver

Hamerling added an epilogue to the work for the critics .

Book editions

  • First edition: Richter, Hamburg 1865
  • Ahasver in Rome. Drama in five acts . Poetry. Edited for the stage by Julius Horst. Hamburg 1900
  • Latest edition: Zbinden, Basel 1967

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