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Integrating pagan knowledge : the Virgilian qotations in Jerome’s letters
ID Seibert, Felix (Author)

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Abstract
This paper analyses Jerome’s treatment of quotations from Virgil, whose works had a status as the collective memory of antiquity in the Latin West in the fourth century. Four central topics in Jerome’s letter collection are examined: language, chastity, barbarian invasions, and asceticism. Examples from famous letters like Ep. 22 to Eustochium, Ep. 123 to Geruchia, Ep. 14 and 60 to Heliodorus, and others, show how and in which context Jerome uses such pagan quotations to approach and connect with the pagan heritage. The stories of Aeneas and Dido, the Tartarus, or the fall of Troy are used as bona or mala exempla and role models for Christian and everyday life and as rhetorical tools in Jerome’s argumentation for their general educational value. For Jerome, Virgil serves as an authority for language and knowledge and moral questions. Herein Jerome finds the best argument for a connection between pagan ideas and the Christian faith.

Language:English
Keywords:letters, Virgil, Aeneid, intertextuality, pagan heritage
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:TEOF - Theological Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:01.01.2021
Year:2021
Number of pages:Str. 503-514
Numbering:Letn. 81, [št.] 2
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-163940 This link opens in a new window
UDC:27-36-1sv.Hieronim
ISSN on article:0006-5722
DOI:10.34291/BV2021/02/Seibert This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:87976707 This link opens in a new window
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Title:Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
Shortened title:Bogosl. vestn.
Publisher:Teološka fakulteta
ISSN:0006-5722
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Vključevanje poganskega znanja : Vergilijanski navedki v Hieronimovih pismih
Abstract:
Avtor v članku analizira Hieronimovo navajanje Vergilija, čigar dela so v 4. stoletju na latinskem Zahodu veljala za skupno antično dediščino. Obravnava štiri osrednje tematike v Hieronimovi zbirki pisem: jezik, čistost, barbarske vpade in asketicizem. Zgledi iz slovitih pisem Evstohiji (Ep. 22), Geruhiji (Ep. 123), Heliodoru (Ep. 14 in 60) in drugim kažejo, kako in v kakšnih kontekstih je Hieronim uporabljal navedke iz poganske književnosti, da bi jih približal in povezal s poganskim znanjem. Zgodba Eneja in Didone, podoba Tartarja in slika padle Troje so uporabljene kot bona ali mala exempla, s tem pa tudi kot vzori za krščansko in nasploh vsakodnevno življenje. Še več, pomenijo retorična orodja v Hieronimovi argumentaciji in se uporabljajo v splošne vzgojne namene. Za Hieronima je Vergilij avtoriteta, ne le glede jezika in znanja, marveč tudi glede moralnih vprašanj. Pri njem Hieronim najde najboljši argument za povezavo med poganskimi idejami in krščansko vero.

Keywords:pisma, Vergilij, Eneida, intertekstualnost, poganska dediščina

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