Rhetorics, uitae, and reception: the genera dicendi in Virgil’s reception and its echo in the ancient uitae
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2022.38445Keywords:
genera dicendi, models, genre, Vitae, receptionAbstract
This paper analyses the genera dicendi in the construction of Virgil’s reception. Ancient rhetoric represented a discipline that proposed a first systematic observation of the language (DUCROT & TODOROV, 1998, p. 79), with principles, categories, and method. It gave tools the authors and readers to produce and criticize classic literary works. A valuable source for tracing the course of literary rhetoric and reception is the ancient uitae. Starting from an occurrence on Georgics 2.58, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Ep. 86), 4 B.C.E. – 65 C.E, proposed a rhetorical synthesis for the understanding of the poem. Servius Honoratus, IV A.D. extends the Senecan synthesis by applying the notion of model, and the ancient uitae, such as the Vita Suetonii uulgo Donatiana (IV A.D.), Vita Philargyrii I (V A.D.), Vita Vossiana (IX A.D.) and Vita Noricensis I (IX A.D.), consolidate the Virgilian reception and tradition. A journey through the mentioned uitae points to the construction of their reception of Virgil in Latin Middle Ages.
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