Disolución universal y aglutinación discursiva en Lucano. Corrupción y dispersión del cuerpo social e individual

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  • Martín M. Vizzotti Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina
Keywords: stoic cosmology, cosmic dissolution, Pharsalia

Abstract

In this paper we study how the epic of Lucan constructs, through the use of Stoic cosmology imagery, a baroque discourse that agglutinates, in the diegetic level, a cosmic and social dissolution. This inexorable process of dissolution affects, by action of sympátheia and pneûma, the body of the soldiers: their bodies suffer inhuman tensions and huge forces that destroy, deform or dissolve them. The discursive operations corrode the fundamental concepts of the vir Romanus, specially virtus, until they become grotesque caricatures of themselves. To achieve this we selected the following episodes: the naval battle in front of Marseille (III, 509-762), the suicide of Vulteius and his men (IV, 462-581), Scaeva’s aristeia (VI, 118-262) and the attack of the serpents (IX, 700-851).

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Vizzotti, M. M. (2010). Disolución universal y aglutinación discursiva en Lucano. Corrupción y dispersión del cuerpo social e individual. Myrtia, 25, 99–129. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/131611
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