Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius

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Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (that's the authentic form of the name; * probably around 260/270; † probably before 335) was a late antique poet. He wrote in Latin and was an early representative of the character poem genre .

The poet Porfyrius is identified with a Porfyrius Optatianus, who is attested for 329 and 333 as praefectus urbi .

Through a collection of particularly skilful figure poems on Constantine the Great , which he later expanded, he was able to return from his exile in 325. His work, of which a total of 28 poems have been preserved, is regarded as a style model for the subsequent Latin poets of such carmina figurata , including Venantius Fortunatus , Alcuin and Hrabanus Maurus , the latter of whom explicitly referred to Porfyrius as a model for his “scattering of letters “( Litteras spargere ) relates.

expenditure

  • Elsa Kluge (Ed.): P. Optatiani Porfyrii Carmina. Teubner, Leipzig 1926.
  • Giovanni Polara (Ed.): Publii Optatiani Porfyrii Carmina. 2 volumes, Paravia, Turin 1973 (with commentary).
  • Publilio Optaziano Porfirio: Carmi. Latino e italiano. A cura di Giovanni Polara. UTET, Torino 2004 (with bibliography).

literature

Overview representations

  • Seraina Plotke: Publilius [II 3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 583 f.
  • Kurt Smolak : Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius. In: Reinhart Herzog (ed.): Restoration and renewal. The Latin literature from 284 to 374 AD (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity , Volume 5). CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-31863-0 , pp. 237-243

Investigations

  • Ulrich Ernst: Carmen figuratum. History of the figure poem from its ancient origins to the end of the Middle Ages (= Pictura et Poesis. Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-412-03589-0 .
  • Francesco Perono Cacciafoco: Studi su Publilio Optaziano Porfirio . Pisa University, Pisa 2011.
  • Meike Rühl: Panegyric in the square: Optatian and the intermedial tendencies of the late antique image of rulers. In: Millennium . Volume 3, 2006, pp. 75-101, doi : 10.1515 / 9783110186437.75 .
  • Michael Squire, Johannes Wienand (Ed.): Morphogrammata / The Lettered Art of Optatian. Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine (= Morphomata. Volume 33). Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6127-8 (collection of articles).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ pardon letter see Patrologia Latina 19.393.
  2. ↑ Patrologia Latina 107,146C.
personal data
SURNAME Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Porfyrius, Publilius Optatianus; Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman official and poet
DATE OF BIRTH at 270
DATE OF DEATH at 334