Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius
Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius (also Fabius Planciades Fulgentius ) was a late antique Latin author of the 6th century , who probably came from North Africa.
Fulgentius "the mythographer" apparently belonged to the senatorial upper class. The identification with the bishop Fulgentius von Ruspe (462-532) is mostly rejected today, since it has recently been assumed that Fabius Fulgentius knew the Johannis des Goripp , which was only created around 550. Otherwise nothing certain is known about his life.
Several works by Fulgentius have survived, some of which had a considerable impact in the Middle Ages . In addition to a short, poetic account of world history ( De aetatibus mundi et hominis ), which remained unfinished, two writings are particularly important: In the Mythologiae , Fulgentius interprets numerous classic pagan legends in the Christian sense; and in the Expositio Virgilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis he develops an ambitious Christian interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid .
Fulgentius is not considered an outstanding author today and is almost forgotten; But his work can serve as an example of the fact that classical education ( Paideia ) was still cultivated in the late late antiquity.
literature
- Stephen Gersh: Fulgentius (Fabius Planciades). In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Volume 3, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-271-05748-5 , pp. 431-433
- Bradford Gregory Hays: Fulgentius the Mythographer , Cornell University 1996 (Dissertation)
- Leslie George Whitebread: Fulgentius the Mythographer , Diss. Ohio State Univ. 1971; The Ohio State University Press, Open Access Initiative
- Graeme Dunphy: Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades . In: Graeme Dunphy (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle . tape 1 . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18464-0 , pp. 653 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fulgentius, Fabius Claudius Gordianus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | late antique Latin writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century or 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century or 7th century |