232 KB31 KB200720252022Movrin, Davidštevilka:1letnik:16str. 65-75DOI:10.4312/ars.16.1.65-75COBISSID_HOST:145170947ISSN:1854-9632URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-MNH390P4en= University of Ljubljana PressZaložba UniverzeArs et humanitasAthanasiusEusebiusrimski imperijRoman Empire"He is human, too"| the Empire and its emperors in Athanasius’ Vita Antonii|The paper analyses the passage from Athanasius’ Vita Antonii, where Antony is corresponding with Constantine, Constantius and Constans, contrasting it with a very different portrayal of Constantine in Eusebius’ Vita Constantini. While Eusebius, in a famous statement, presented the emperor as a sort of a bishop, the Greek Vita Antoniitried to present a very different model, one that seems to be sceptical of the imperial power and perhaps of earthly society as such. The point was not lost on those who later developed the genre, as can be seen in the writings of Sulpicius Severus, the author of Vita Mar tini, written at the end of the fourth century, where the three emperors from Vita Antonii are paralleled with three different emperors, in a much sharper relief, subverting secular power and underlining the superiority of its spiritual alternativeČlanek analizira odlomek iz Atanazijeve Vita Antonii 81, kjer si Anton dopisuje s Konstantinom in njegovima sinovoma, Konstancijem in Konstansom, ter besedilo primerja z zelo drugačnim prikazom Konstantina v Evzebijevi Vita Constantini. Medtem ko je Evzebij v znanem odlomku cesarja predstavil kot nekakšnega škofa, je grška Vita Antonii ponudila zelo drugačen model, za katerega se zdi, da je skeptičen do cesarske oblasti in morda do družbe na zemlji kot take. Tega niso spregledali pisci, ki so pozneje razvili isti žanr; to je razvidno iz spisov Sulpicija Severa, avtorja Martinovega življenja, napisanega ob koncu četrtega stoletja, kjer se namesto treh cesarjev iz Vita Antonii pojavijo trije drugačni cesarji, ki v veliko ostrejših potezah subvertirajo posvetno oblast in poudarjajo premoč njene duhovne alternativeTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta