Aulus Furius Antias

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Aulus Furius Antias was an ancient Roman poet. He came from Antium and lived in the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BC. Chr.

Furius was with Quintus Lutatius Catulus , who lived in 102 BC. Officiated as consul , friends. As Cicero reports, Catulus dedicated a description of his deeds to the poet, especially his share in the victory over the Cimbri ; Furius was probably supposed to cover this subject in an epic. In fact, Furius seems to have written such a historical epic, which was probably entitled Annales . The late antique scholar Macrobius narrates eight passages from the work of a Furius, who is possibly the friend of Catulus; these verses ( hexameters ) were models for passages in Virgil's Aeneid . However, it is also possible that the quotations in Macrobius are taken from a work by the poet Marcus Furius Bibaculus . Other passages have come down to us from Aulus Gellius . Gellius cited six hexameters, some of which relate to combat, and named Furius from Antium as the author. He defended his word creations against the criticism of the grammarian Caesellius Vindex, who had claimed that Furius spoiled the Latin language. One of the objectionable passages is the verse increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus (“With every loss the mind grows and strength blossoms”). While Caesellius considered the "sc" attached to the root of a verb (which denotes a process of becoming; here: vire-sc-it "it gets green") to be unpoetic, if not grammatically incorrect, the poet Gellius felt this neologism to be highly poetic and polemicized accordingly. This controversial quote found its way into the foreword to Nietzsche's Götzen-Twilight .

Text output

  • Willy Morel (Ed.): Fragmenta poetarum latinorum epicorum et lyricorum praeter Ennium et Lucilium , Leipzig, Teubner, 1927. Rééd. Leipzig 1995.

literature

  • William W. Batstone: The Fragments of Furius Antias. In: The Classical Quarterly . New Series Vol. 46, 1996, pp. 387-402
  • Werner Suerbaum : A. Furius Antias. In: Werner Suerbaum (Ed.): The archaic literature. From the beginnings to Sulla's death (= Handbook of Ancient Latin Literature , Volume 1). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48134-5 , p. 282 f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 132.
  2. ↑ Macrobius, Saturnalia 6,1,31 ff.
  3. ↑ Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18:11.
personal data
SURNAME Antias, Aulus Furius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient roman poet
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Antium
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.