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Euidentia in Latin epics from republican to flavian age : From a representative mimèsis to a creative phantasia

Abstract

The aim of the author is to study the Poetics of enargeia (the quality of "evidence") in latin epics from republican to flavian age : Livius Andronicus's Odyssey, Naevius's Punic war, Ennius's Annals, Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Pharsalia, Silius Italicus's Punic War. After defining the antique senses of image, its rhetorical stakes and its generic rules in epic, we complete this theoretical approach, studying the founding authors, which brings to the fore somme traits inherent in homeric Poetics : its mimetic, rational, "realistic" aspect. But, according to the evidence given bu imperial rhetors, it is a recognized fact that this traditionl conception of mimèsis transforms istself in the 1st century A.D. : Longinus and Quintilian suggest that image becomes more and more subjective, frees itself from "realistic" convention and gains a greater inventive freedom. Therefore, comparing the works of our corpus with these facts, we try to define each author's respective contributions at the renewal of the epic enargeia. In fact, it turns out that, since it is more creative, the epic roman enargeia still transgresses and makes light of the generic epic laws and tends to open itself up from the "real" to offer subjective and inventive visions. In this respect, Virgil seems particularly like a precursor.

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