Sententiae na épica latina

Authors

  • Martin T. Dinter King’s College London / Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2358-3150.v0i14p51-62

Keywords:

Sententiae, Latin epic, Virgil, Lucan, fuga, apocalypse.

Abstract

This paper examines Virgil’s and Lucan’s sententiae, a much-neglected thetorical feature of Latin epic. While Virgil’s sententiae are frequently quoted by later authors, Lucan in particular was famous for his highly rhetorical sententiae in antiquity (cf. Quint. Inst. 10.1.90). Lucan strives on the syntactic level to create unique and memorable phrases, which secure the Nachleben of his epic body through excerptability. Reading of Lucan as a mine for one-liners is no modern imposition, but instead confirms that this style of reading brings out the strength of the poem’s energetic formulation of its key themes such as downfall and flight: sententiae lay down the epic’s laws and simultaneously create a discourse on epic values that spans the entire epic.

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Published

2010-12-19

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