Resumen de Statius am Moselufer. Die Villenschilderungen in der Mosella des Ausonius zwischen Fiktion und Realität
The paper deals with the Roman villae rusticae which Ausonius describes in his Mosella (283–348). Although actually a rich Villeggiatura existed in Gallia Belgica, no closer correspondence can be found between text and topography. There are, however, intertextual relations to Statius’ descriptions of villas. This can be explained as a threefold fictional transformation of real landscape: Ausonius keeps a fluvial perspective, i.e., he is interested in the architectural structures only as far as they are linked to the Moselle. Furthermore, the author, by means of intertextual allusions, evokes a literary and mythological Mediterranean landscape, which is, so to speak, transferred to Gaul. Finally, covering up the actual devastations, which had recently affected the Villeggiatura, Ausonius anticipates the imperial efforts of reconstruction.
