Ausonius an Paulinus von Nola

Nils Rücker considers these letters to be literature: They may have been written in the form of personal letters, like the letter poems of Horace, but they were in fact meant to be enjoyed by a larger circle of readers.Around the year 390 AD the rhetor Ausonius wrote a number of poetical letters to his former pupil Paulinus, later the Bishop of Nola. At the center of these letter poems were his la...