The Death Event and the Theory of Power: Ovidian Incunabula for the Development of a Coherent Ideology about the Afterlife of the Roman Emperor

<p>This research focuses on the cultural interrelations arouse by the rites of the emperor’s death in Rome. It rebuilds and analyzes, starting from the inventive concerning the theme contained in the Ovidian’s works, the <em>loci</em>, the description formulas, and the cultural cod...

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Main Author: Antonio Pio DI COSMO
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2020-10-01
Series:Studia Historica: Historia Antigua
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0213-2052/article/view/24371
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Summary:<p>This research focuses on the cultural interrelations arouse by the rites of the emperor’s death in Rome. It rebuilds and analyzes, starting from the inventive concerning the theme contained in the Ovidian’s works, the <em>loci</em>, the description formulas, and the cultural codes. It refers in particular to the literature, that concerns the death of the Roman emperor, which is analyzed from the point of view of rhetoric. In this way, we show a fiction or, if you prefer, a dubious reality, which hides a forcing. And so, it introduces a witness, which confirms the veracity of deification.</p>
ISSN:0213-2052