La obra histórica de Paulo Orosio y sus diferencias con Agustín de Hipona: Transmisión de conceptos historiográficos en la Antigüedad Tardía

Abstract

In this contribution we intend to identify and analyze which are the concepts leading Paulus Orosius’ views on History. This author wrote Historiae aduersus paganos at the beginning of the V century AD under the influence of Augustine of Hippo. We explore the origins and paths of those concepts in order to determine the ways in which way they reached the orosian work. For this purpose, we will consider the sources nourishing his work. We talk about concepts such as universalism, the spacetime framework in which the work is developed and the providentialism, being used as the main theme. These patterns are particularized in guidelines like the reinterpretation of the translation imperii formula, the identification of Romen with christianism and the theologization of the monarchy, referring to characters such as Octavius Augustus and Christ. We will focus on the filter Augustine of Hippo –addressee of the work and master of its author- may be for the reception of pagan and Christian literary traditions in the work of Orosius.