The éthos of Hannibal in Livy and Cornelius Nepos: imagines

• Grant number: 10/13114-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Martins
• Grantee: Cynthia Helena Dibbern
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work seeks to reflect about Hannibal's éthos construed by Cornelius Nepos in his Lives and by Livy in Ab Urbe Condita. Both auctors, the first, scriptor vitae, and the second, scriptor historiae, use rhetorical procedures to create, with words, visual imagines of the frightful Carthaginian general. Thus, it's necessary to study the application of ekphrasis, euidentia and description, rhetorical procedures connected to ornatus and elocutio, able to arouse in the reader the phantasia. The development of this research also allow the reflection about the limits between History and res ficta in Antiquity, between the res explicare and the enarrare vitam, between the Credibile and the Truthful in Ancient Historiography, and finally between verbum and pictura. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

DIBBERN, Cynthia Helena. Hannibal\'s êthos in Livy and Cornelius Nepos: imagines. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.