O epos histórico da Farsália, de Lucano : Sula e Mário como exempla
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2024-04-30
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Coutinho, Thayrynne de Faria
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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Lucan’s epic, Civil War or Pharsalia, narrates the Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey. As did Ennius in his Annals and Nevius in his Punic War, Lucan sings in his epic about a historical event, the military deeds in war, and in doing so, he aligns his poem with the tradition of Roman historical epic. The boundaries that distinguish a historiography composition from a poetic one are historically determined, which means that the characteristics attributed to a certain field were not always read as inherent indices of these works. As a genre concerned with recording the deeds of the illustrious Romans generals in battle, we understand that historiography works and poetic ones share a close relationship. Therefore, we aim to discuss how the poet Lucan wrote his historical epic through a narrative that incorporates rhetorical-discursive techniques that are dear to the historiography discourse. Thus, we analyze the relationship between Pharsalia and other epics and historiography works in order to discuss Lucan’s historical epic poetically and also historically as we also aim to identify in Lucan’s epic the presence of recurring historical procedures in historians considered models, such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus. We understand that these procedures featuring in Pharsalia contribute to create a narrative texture that brings lucanian verses closer to a historiography work. To deepen this discussion, we investigate how the poet constructs the account of the First Civil War (88 BCE), whose main characters are Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius, as exemplary narrative and how this account is incorporated in his epic according to how the historians report on a past event to establish a benchmark for the deeds of the generals Julius Caesar and Pompey. We verify that Lucan employs techniques used by historians, primarily Livy, to build his account of the First Civil as a sign for the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey
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Lucano, 39-65 , Épica histórica , Exempla , Guerra civil