Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius' Epitaphia heroum.

In the first chapter and in the appendix, I question the conventional thesis that a collection compiled by Porphyrios was the source Ausonius made use of for his Epitaphia. In the main part, I present some examples to illustrate two types of text-relations that are constitutive for the opusculum: first the relationship between the model and the text, the so-called intertextuality (epit. 1-3), then -- looking at epit. 6, 5, 13 -- interrelations among the epitaphs themselves which I name intratextuality. The correlations help to network the diverse individual portraits and to give coherence to the cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]