STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY
Seneca’s Hercules Furens presents one version of a well-known myth in literary, artistic, and philosophical tradition. I will identify some stylistic devices of the tragedy in order to make explicit the way in which Hercules’s own ambivalence is related to Seneca’s poetic and generic praxis. I will...
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| description | Seneca’s Hercules Furens presents one version of a well-known myth in literary, artistic, and philosophical tradition. I will identify some stylistic devices of the tragedy in order to make explicit the way in which Hercules’s own ambivalence is related to Seneca’s poetic and generic praxis. I will focalize upon three axes: a. the conceptual ?uctuation around Hercules’s uirtus and labores; b. the thematic inversion through uictor / uictus module, and c. the imaginary of hybridity in connection with the monstrum-motif. Such axes show some of the main dynamics of Senecan poetics, and allow to shed light on the motivations and purposes of including this legendary character in a tragedy of the Neronian period. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ad4349001cce41d991f9381af7f8202b2022-12-22T03:36:21ZengSociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (SBEC)Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos0103-43162176-64362012-07-01251/292110.14195/2176-6436_25_173STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDYEleonora Tola0Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientí?cas y Técnicas – universidad de Buenos AiresSeneca’s Hercules Furens presents one version of a well-known myth in literary, artistic, and philosophical tradition. I will identify some stylistic devices of the tragedy in order to make explicit the way in which Hercules’s own ambivalence is related to Seneca’s poetic and generic praxis. I will focalize upon three axes: a. the conceptual ?uctuation around Hercules’s uirtus and labores; b. the thematic inversion through uictor / uictus module, and c. the imaginary of hybridity in connection with the monstrum-motif. Such axes show some of the main dynamics of Senecan poetics, and allow to shed light on the motivations and purposes of including this legendary character in a tragedy of the Neronian period.https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/73SênecaHercules FurensAmbivalênciaTragediaPoética. |
| spellingShingle | Eleonora Tola STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos Sêneca Hercules Furens Ambivalência Tragedia Poética. |
| title | STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY |
| title_full | STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY |
| title_fullStr | STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY |
| title_full_unstemmed | STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY |
| title_short | STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY |
| title_sort | stylistic devices in seneca s hercules furens myth reception and the poetics of tragedy |
| topic | Sêneca Hercules Furens Ambivalência Tragedia Poética. |
| url | https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/73 |
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