Drakoncjusz w więzieniu: siła poezji przeciwko sile władzy

• Authors: Natalia Cichoń

Title variants

EN

Dracontius in prison: the power of poetry against the power of the authority

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this paper I examine presumed reasons for the imprisonment of the Carthaginian poet of the fifth century A.D., Blossius Aemilius Dracontius. He wrote a panegyric for a dominus ignotus making a political faux pas – in the result Guntamund, the vandal king, imprisoned him – analyzing Dracontius’s poetry and taking into consideration the political and the cultural background I aim to find out who was the most probable recipient of the poem. These reflections lead in the conclusion to the presentation of the peculiar character of the agreement between Romano-African people and barbarians, mostly on the cultural and literary level. In his poetry Dracontius gives us very important message about the relations be­tween the educated classes of both nations on the Vandal royal court – we can as­sume that in the Vandal Kingdom still existed literary patronage on a very similar basis as it existed earlier in the Roman Empire.

Keywords

PL

Drakoncjusz; Państwo wandalskie; Kartagina; dominus ignotus; poezja łacińska późnego antyku

EN

Dracontius; The Vandal Kingdom; Carthage; dominus ignotus; late antique Latin poetry

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 69
• Pages: 125-141

Dates

published

2018-12-16

Contributors

author

Natalia Cichoń

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.3255