Favonius Eulogius

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Favonius Eulogius was a pupil of Augustine who lived as a rhetorician in Africa around the year 385 . He dedicated his surviving commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis to the consular of the Byzacena province .

Contrary to what the name suggests, the commentary on the Somnium Scipionis deals little with the old model. It is divided into two parts. The first deals with numbers as the basis of all being, the second with music and the harmony of the spheres . The author deals with Pythagorean teachings, but has not studied them very seriously. His sources are mostly Greeks, which were conveyed to him through Marcus Terentius Varro . The work has no direct connection to Macrobius' commentary .

expenditure

  • Alfred Holder : Favonii Eulogii Disputatio de Somnio Scipionis. Teubner, Leipzig 1901. Digitized  - Internet Archive
  • Roger-E. van Weddingen (Ed.): Favonii Eulogii Disputatio de Somnio Scipionis. Latomus, Bruxelles 1957 (critical edition with French translation)
  • Giuseppe Marcellino: Favonii Eulogii Disputatio de Somnio Scipionis. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento. M. D'Auria Editore, Napoli 2011.

literature

  • Jacques Flamant: Favonius Eulogius. In: DNP 4 (1998), col. 450.
  • Jean Pépin : Favonius Eulogius. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Volume 3, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-271-05748-5 , pp. 417-418.
  • Martin Sicherheitsl : Contributions to the criticism and explanation of Favonius Eulogius (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class , born 1959, No. 10). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1960.
  • Martin Safe : Favonius Eulogius. In: Reallexikon für Antike und Christianentum 7 (1969), Sp. 636–640.

Remarks

  1. Augustine, de cur. per mort. ger. 11, 13
  2. ut Varroni placet (disp. Somn. Scip. 12, 2).