Mord(s)bilder - Aufzählungen von Gewalt bei Seneca und Lucan
Abstract
Often noticed, frequently criticized, the descriptions of physical violence in Seneca’s philosophical work De ira and Lucan’s civil war epic De bello civili irritate until today. Only looking at the theory of rhetoric, the use of exempla and the staging of violence allows an approach to ancient reception attitudes and reveals the connections between enumeration and visualizability, violence and the the arousal of the emotions.
Keywords
Visualizability; enumeration; violence; deathDOI
10.1515/9783110639551ISBN
9783110639551, 9783110635973, 9783110636390, 9783110639551Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2019Series
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 76Classification
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Ancient history