Ars vivendi. Der Konflikt zwischen Mythos und Logos im Circe-Gedicht des Boethius (cons. 4 carm. 3)

• Autores: Melanie Möller
• Localización: Hermes: Zeitschrift fur klassische philologie, ISSN 0018-0777, Vol. 141, Nº 2, 2013, págs. 192-208
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Boethius' adaption of the myth of Circe and Odysseus (cons. 4 carm. 3) is an anthropologically based manifesto for self-assertion. Following the example of the ars vivendi, which is established in the text, a human being who is in distress can harden himself against inner (mental) anguish by keeping outer (physical) dangers at a distance. However, a poetic transformation is needed to convey this technique: It is only through the poetic treatment of the disenchanted myth that the world order which is out of joint is restored and the human being regains his place in the cosmos. In this poem, Boethius expresses in figurative language how a narrated myth functions as a rational means of establishing order. Thus, he sets the genuinely aesthetic powers of poetry apart from the modes of display used in philosophical prose.