Cassiodorus lived for fifteen years in exile in Constantinople (540-555). In this context, he wrote the Expositio psalmorum, a work that combines the interest in scriptural exegesis with that for the liberal arts (particularly rhetoric and dialectic). In fact, the Expositio is not a text exclusively theological, but has a much more complex form, as it reconciles equally the features of the exegetical and doctrinal commentary and those of the rhetorical-grammatical manual. The combination of these two elements not only gives to the Commentary an encyclopedic mould, but it reveals his real target: the school. Among the Latin exegetical sources we can remember Augustinus, Ambrosius, Hieronymus and Hilarius Pictaviensis; there are even many quotations from Greek exegetes, as Origenes, Athanasius, Cyrillus Alexandrinus and Iohannes Chrysostomus. In contrast, the references to liberal arts evoke a complex repertoire of Latin authors (as Varro, Cicero, Marius Sacerdos, Donatus, Servius, Macrobius, Quintilianus, Rufi-nianus and Marius Victorinus), but also of Greek grammarians (as Cecilius de Calacte and the anonymous “Schemata dianoeas”)
Tra Costantinopoli e Vivarium. Fonti greche e fonti latine nel Commento ai Salmi di Cassiodoro
STOPPACCI, PATRIZIA
2016
Abstract
Cassiodorus lived for fifteen years in exile in Constantinople (540-555). In this context, he wrote the Expositio psalmorum, a work that combines the interest in scriptural exegesis with that for the liberal arts (particularly rhetoric and dialectic). In fact, the Expositio is not a text exclusively theological, but has a much more complex form, as it reconciles equally the features of the exegetical and doctrinal commentary and those of the rhetorical-grammatical manual. The combination of these two elements not only gives to the Commentary an encyclopedic mould, but it reveals his real target: the school. Among the Latin exegetical sources we can remember Augustinus, Ambrosius, Hieronymus and Hilarius Pictaviensis; there are even many quotations from Greek exegetes, as Origenes, Athanasius, Cyrillus Alexandrinus and Iohannes Chrysostomus. In contrast, the references to liberal arts evoke a complex repertoire of Latin authors (as Varro, Cicero, Marius Sacerdos, Donatus, Servius, Macrobius, Quintilianus, Rufi-nianus and Marius Victorinus), but also of Greek grammarians (as Cecilius de Calacte and the anonymous “Schemata dianoeas”)I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
