Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 February 2026
- ISBN 9780198926672
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages210 pages
- Size 13x156x234 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 787
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Short description:
This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the strong moral and social relevance to Macrobius of texts from the classical, non-Christian past.
MoreLong description:
This book builds a new framework for interpreting the use of classical source material in Macrobius' Saturnalia. It argues that the Saturnalia, an educational dialogue long dismissed as a nostalgic compilation looking back to the 'pagan' classical past, engages with its literary models in a sophisticated and dynamic way, and can shed light on allusive techniques in Greco-Roman literature more broadly. Throughout the Saturnalia, Macrobius responds to the aesthetic and social norms of his predecessors, a process which this volume terms ethical allusion. His ethical allusions do not have a single function but encompass a range of creative and critical interactions with Greco-Roman authors, most prominently Aulus Gellius, Cicero, Plato, and Virgil. By reflecting on the relevance of earlier ethical and aesthetic codes for his contemporary moment, Macrobius makes unique contributions to pressing social and literary questions in Late Antiquity about the changing notions of class and enslavement, luxury, gender, and the value of Virgilian poetry. Ethical allusion thus furnishes a richer and more precise picture of the Saturnalia's place within the late Latin literary landscape. It also offers a new model for understanding allusions in Greco-Roman texts, one which takes fuller account of the social, political, and aesthetic work done by ancient literary production.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Ethics, politics, and allusion in the Saturnalia
Scholarly interlocutors in the Saturnalia
Macrobius' Symposium: Plato and Plutarch in the Saturnalia
Gender norms and philosophical erudition
Macrobius' Virgils
Conclusion: The cultural politics of allusion
