Mord(s)bilder - Aufzählungen von Gewalt bei Seneca und Lucan

• Main Author: Backhaus, Maria (auth)
• Format: eBook
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019
• Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Classical history / classical civilisation; Visualizability; enumeration; violence; death
• Online Access: Get fulltext
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (329 p.)
• ISBN: 9783110639551; 9783110635973; 9783110636390
• Access: Open Access

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.