Ovidius declamans: The influence of declamation in Ovid's heroides IV

Authors

  • Barbara da Costa e Silva Universidade de São Paulo
  • Cecilia Ugartemendía Universidade de São Paulo

Keywords:

Rhetoric. Declamation. Ovid. Heroides IV.

Abstract

Declamation, the exercise on a fictive forensic or deliberative situation practised in the schools of rhetoric, became popular in the Augustan Era. Its influence on literature can be noticed: Ovid, above all, is not free from its style and language. Seneca, the Elder (Contr. 2.2.8-12), for example, gives a testimonial of Ovid's activities as a declamator. Therefore this paper discusses the Heroides IV, an epistle that belongs to one of Ovid´s most rhetorical works, in the light of the declamatory genre, focusing on style, like the use of sententiae, and other thematic and structural similarities.

Author Biographies

Barbara da Costa e Silva, Universidade de São Paulo

Mestrado em Letras (Letras Clássicas) pela Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil(2015)Doutorando da Universidade de São Paulo.

Cecilia Ugartemendía, Universidade de São Paulo

Mestrado em Letras (Letras Clássicas) pela Universidade de São Paulo.

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2016-09-28

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