Backhaus, Maria

Mord(s)bilder - Aufzählungen von Gewalt bei Seneca und Lucan - Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019 - 1 electronic resource (329 p.)

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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.


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German

9783110639551 9783110639551 9783110635973 9783110636390

10.1515/9783110639551 doi


Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Classical history / classical civilisation

Visualizability enumeration violence death