Author, auctor, auctoritas - Aspects of authorship in commentaries on Virgil

这个项目的主要主题是古代诗话中作者身份和训释功能之间的互动。它的目的是比较审查，以维吉尔的作品评论为例。由于其不同的子集，弗吉尼亚评论语料库特别适合于这一分析。它包括两个归因于单一作者的自主评论(Servius，Tiberius Claudius Donatus)，以及几个匿名和伪图形注释集合。比较将以塞维厄斯的释经工作为起点，这代表了语料库中经常被调查，但也是最有争议的部分。这一分析是基于这样一种假设，即评论作为一种教学-训诫功能，使用特定的授权策略来实现其目标。对Servius的研究表明，在这一过程中，读者在使用评论时所体验到的作者“角色”，即“作者声音”的印象，是一个突出的角色。这种印象是由Servius文本的某些特征造成的，这些特征同样可以在语料库的其他部分找到，即使这些部分是零碎的、匿名的或集体的。该项目的目的是首次为不能归因于单一作者的收藏品分析这种“作者之声”的表现。将它们与Servius进行比较，将为不同收藏品的个性特征以及古代注释的一般方法带来新的见解。其结果将是更好地理解古代的训诫和说教实践。

The main topic of this project will be the interaction between authorship and exegetical function in ancient commentaries on poetry. It aims at a comparative examination, using as an example the commentaries on the works of Virgil. Due to its diverse subsets, the corpus of the Virgilian commentaries is particularly well suited for this analysis. It includes two autonomous commentaries ascribed to single authors (Servius, Tiberius Claudius Donatus), and several anonymous as well as pseudepigraphic collections of annotations. The comparison will take as its starting point the exegetical work of Servius, which represents a frequently investigated, but also a most controversially discussed part of the corpus. The analysis is based on the assumption that commentaries, as works with a didactic-exegetical function, use certain strategies of authorization to achieve their objectives. Studies on Servius suggest that a prominent role in this process plays the authorial "persona", i.e. the impression of an "authorial voice", that readers experience while using the commentary. This impression is caused by certain features of Servius' text, which will equally be found in other parts of the corpus, even if these are fragmentary, anonymous or collective. The aim of the project is to analyse such manifestations of "authorial voice" for the first time for collections, which cannot be ascribed to single authors. Comparing them with Servius will bring new insights into individual characteristics of the different collections as well as into general methods of annotating and commenting in antiquity. The result will be a better understanding of ancient exegetical and didactic practices.