Hrotsvit von Gandersheim

Rädle, Fidel

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“…Quia Terentius ille sex comoedias posteris reliquerat. Sciendum est autem Terentii comoedias etiam medio aevo in scholis monasteriorum pueris puellisque ex usu propositas esse 10 De vita et operibus Hrotsvithae egerunt: Rädle 1983; Dronke 1984: 55-83; Brunhölzl 1992: 406-416. -Opera omnia Hrotsvithae edidit Walter Berschin, Monachii et Lipsiae 2001; ibi etiam de vita poetriae deque temporibus, quibus singula opera sint composita, pp.…”

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Homo sum – amicus sum, sive de Terentio Christiano Hrotsvithae Gandeshemensis

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2021

10.14746/sppgl

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The most famous line from Terence, homo sum etc. (Heautontimoroumenos 77), has been interpreted in different ways under different circumstances by authors ranging from Cicero and Seneca in antiquity and Erasmus at the beginning of the modern age to figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bataille, and Thomas Mann. Augustine of Hippo was the first to refer to Terence within a broader Christian context, and in the 12th century John of Salisbury equated the presumed philanthropic attitude of the Roman comedian and imitator of Menander with charity, the ultimate Christian virtue. Whereas most of the testimonia to the reception of Heautontimoroumenos 77 have already been identified and in part analyzed, a refined indirect ῾quotation᾿ of the line in question has been neglected: In a sort of réécriture of the initial scene of Terence’s drama, Roswita (Hrotsvit) of Gandersheim (10th century), in her hagiographic comedy ῾Abraham᾿, interpreted the even then proverbial sentence by introducing for the attitude of ῾humanity towards one’s neighbour᾿ both the Aristotelian definition of friendship (῾one soul in two bodies᾿) and a reference to the ideal of a Christian society with ‘one heart and one soul᾿ (Acts 4, 32). Thus the Terentian humanum is bothparaphrased by and identified with both an other classical and a Christian concept of mutual human affection.

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Homo sum – amicus sum, sive de Terentio Christiano Hrotsvithae Gandeshemensis

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Hrotsvit von Gandersheim

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Homo sum – amicus sum, sive de Terentio Christiano Hrotsvithae Gandeshemensis

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