MARIO VITTORE, CLAUDIO. - Ecclesiastical writer who lived in the 5th century, author of the work Alethia, identical with the Victorinus (in some manuscripts: Victorius) rhetor Massiliensis cited by Gennadius, De viris ill., 60.
The work Alethia contains a paraphrase of Genesis down to the death of Abraham, in hexameters for school use, which explains the freedom of its content. Gennadius speaks of him "utpote saeculari litteratura occupatus homo et nullius magisterio in Divinis Scripturis excitatus." One can observe the influence of Virgil, Lucretius and Ovid on the author (cf. H. Maurer, De exemplis quae Claudius Marius Victor in Alethia secutus sit. Diss., Marburg 1896); in the description of the work of Creation he depends on St. Ambrose (cf. ibid., pp. 17 ff., 47 ff.). The text begins with a precatio; the end of the work has not been preserved. It survives in a single manuscript.
Bibliography8 workscritical edition: C. Schenkl, in CSEL, XVI, pp. 335-498. Studies: A. Bourgoin, De Claudio Mario Victore rhetore christiano quinti saeculi. T
BIBL.: critical edition: C. Schenkl, in CSEL, XVI, pp. 335-498. Studies: A. Bourgoin, De Claudio Mario Victore rhetore christiano quinti saeculi. Thesis, Paris 1883; St. Gamber, Un rhéteur chrétien au Ve siècle, Claude Marius Victor, Thèse, Marseille 1884; id., Le Livre de la Genèse dans la poésie latine au Ve siècle, Paris 1899, passim; O. Ferrari, Un poeta cristiano del sec. V, C. M. V., Pavia 1912; id., Intorno alle fonti del poema di C. M. V., in Didaskaleion, 1 (1912), pp. 57-74; Bardenhewer, IV, pp. 637-640; C. Weymann, Beiträge zur Geschichte des christ. lateinischen Poesie, Munich 1926, p. 120 ff.; Eltester, Klaudius Marius Viktor, in Pauly-Wissowa, XXVIII, p. 1839 ff.
Peterson, Erik. “Mario Vittore, claudio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 167. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/mario-vittore-claudio.
MLA
Peterson, Erik. “Mario Vittore, claudio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 167. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/mario-vittore-claudio.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_mario_vittore_claudio,
author = {Peterson, Erik},
title = {Mario Vittore, claudio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {167},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/mario-vittore-claudio}
}
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