Cum dignitate venustas. Eros coniugale e rielaborazione degli auctores classici in Ausonio

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Throughout his oeuvre, Ausonio elaborates a complex, but not inconsistent, model of conjugal eros. This is a construction of an “exemplary history” of the ego in his own marital relationship: different aspects of the same literary models are recovered (Vergil, archaic comedy, Catullus, elegy, Martial, Statius and the novelli), with a taste for the “contextual” and baffling allusion to more than one author and work, which interact within the poetic micro-context. Starting from Epigr., 89 Green, the paper focuses on the “elegization” of the relationship with Sabina; Epigr., 14 and 20 are also examined (in Epigr., 20 the elegiac models interact and “correct” the opening “motto”, which alludes to Catull. 5 and Epigr., 14); in the funerary poetry of the Parentalia (see Par., 2, 5, 9, 16, 19, 23, 25, etc.) ancient erotic topoi are re-contextualized.