Description

• Title:
  Sight and Suffering: From the Roman History of a Literary Motif
• Creator:
  Pigoń , Jakub
• Description:
  The paper examines a number of Roman literary texts (by Ennius, Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Lucan, Tacitus, Jerome, etc.) in which viewing is connected with mental or emotional suffering. Usually, the emphasis is laid on a character’s viewing of some dramatic events – a close relative’s death, for example – and on his or her emotional response to what is being seen. In some works, especially in consolatory contexts, someone’s premature death is presented as advantageous because the dead person is now spared the necessity of viewing misfortunes which the living have to witness. Also, people may be compelled (e.g. by an emperor) to watch evil things; in such a situation they are usually viewers and objects of viewing at the same time, since their gestures and facial expression are carefully observed.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Pigoń Jakub
• Date:
  2021.10.12
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 31 No. 1 (2021); 205-225;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 31 Nr 1 (2021); 205-225;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/29637/26314
• Subject:
  viewing as a literary theme;
  Roman literature;
  Cicero;
  Vergil;
  Seneca the Younger;
  Tacitus;
  consolation
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/29637
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other