Bissula
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Bissula (flourished in 4th century AD) was an Alemannic woman in the 4th century.[1][2] She was captured by the Romans in 368 at the Battle of Solicinium, in the area of Württemberg, at a young age and became a slave of the Roman poet Ausonius who had participated in the campaign.[3][4] Ausonius, who by then was a widower of about 60 years of age, fell in love with Bissula and released her from slavery. He wrote a poem on her, de Bissula ("About Bissula"), which he sent to his friend Paulus.[5][4]
References[edit]
- ^ Shanzer, Danuta (1998). "The Date and Literary Context of Ausonius's "mosella": Valentinian I's Alamannic Campaigns and an Unnamed Office-Holder". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 47 (2): 204–233. ISSN 0018-2311.
- ^ Momigliano, Arnaldo (1982). "An Inscription from Lyons and the Language Situation in Gaul in the Third and Fourth Centuries A.d." Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia. 12 (3): 1105–1115. ISSN 0392-095X.
- ^ Strouse, A. W. (2014-12-01). "In te consumere nomen: The Politics of Naming in Ausonius's Mosella". Names. 62 (4): 189–201. doi:10.1179/0027773814Z.00000000084. ISSN 1756-2279.
- ^ a b Richlin, Amy (2014), "Reading Boy-Love and Child-Love in the Greco-Roman World", Sex in Antiquity, Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315747910-24&type=chapterpdf, ISBN 978-1-315-74791-0, retrieved 2024-02-22
- ^ Drinkwater, J. F (1999). "Re-Dating Ausonius' War Poetry". American Journal of Philology. 120 (3): 443–452. ISSN 1086-3168.
Sources[edit]
- Latin text of beginning of the main part. Click on Next for the next part.
- Liebesgedichte an Bissula, a German translation by M. W. Besser, 1908
- Friedrich Marx: Ausonius 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band II,2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 2562–2580, hier Sp. 2564 und Sp. 2571.
- Felix Dahn: Gesammelte Werke. Erste Serie, Band 3. Berlin 1884.
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