Definition of the stylistic idiom of Seneca in Oedipus and Phoenissae tragedies: a study on the expressiveness

• Grant number: 15/02125-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Brunno Vinicius Gonçalves Vieira
• Grantee: Cíntia Martins Sanches
• Supervisor: William Fitzgerald
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: King's College London, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/12394-3 - Definition of Seneca's stylistic idiom in Oedipus and Phoenissae tragedies: an expressive translation proposal, BP.DR

Abstract

Oedipus and Phoenissae tragedies of Seneca are the study object herein. This study reveals how the Latin text is organised poetically, aiming to define the main characteristics of stylistic idiom of Seneca in the corpus. Since such tragedies deals with the myth of Labdacids, we chose them. Thus, a more comprehensive approach is possible concerning how Seneca treated the myth of Oedipus. Brodsky (1986) used the concept of stylistic idiom in 'The Child of Civilization', which concerns the stylistic affinity required for a translation to be equivalent to the source text. Accordingly, expressive features as figures of speech and marks from phonic, lexical, morphosyntactic and metric levels are observed, which particularise how Seneca has handled the myth. (AU)