Arator

Arator was a native of Liguria late antique poet of the 6th century. He wrote a classic tradition undertook Latin verse text of the Acts.

Over the life of the Arator little is known, even his full name is unknown. It is certain that he was the son of a rhetorician and early death due to ecclesiastical promotion in Ravenna struck a career as a lawyer and officer in the court of Ostgotenkönige. When the Eastern Roman troops of the Emperor Justinian I. began the reconquest of Italy, Arator seems to side with the invaders, which he probably saw as liberators from the Germanic rule to have beaten; this may suggest that Arator was orthodox Catholic and therefore the " Arian " rejected the faith of the Goths. To 540 he joined in any case as a subdiaconus in the city of Rome clergy. Because of a note in the principal manuscripts of his work, we know that Arator 544, in the middle of the second, bloodier Gothic War, in Vincula hosted a celebrated public reading. After that trace of him.

Arators work, the Historia Apostolica De actibus or apostolorum ( the original title has not survived ), based in the language in Virgil, Lucan and Statius; content, there are many elements of the late antique folk sermon. In addition to the purely theological aspects reveals that Arator one hand, is directed against the Arian Ostrogoths and the other hand is trying to justify the claims of the Roman bishop to the emperor. Comprised of 2325 hexameters long poem is divided into 43 sections and enjoyed in the outgoing during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages great popularity.