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- Title
Ad te scribam nescio: Cícero exilado e o uso do páthos para escusar-se da obrigação de escrever.
- Authors
da Silva Oliveira, Alessandro Carvalho; Paulino da Silva, Camilla Ferreira
- Abstract
We analyze the use of rhetorical resources in Ciceronian epistolary discourse through which the preserving of the orator's ethos was possible (MAINGUENEAU, 2014) during his exile (58-57 BC). Through their correspondence, Roman aristocrats of the final years of the Republic mediated their social relations at a distance, using letters as an alternative to personal interaction, whenever necessary. Considering that the absence (absentia) of an amicus could be considered problematic and that the delay in sending letters could cause problems for the Roman citizen ethos, Cicero used pathetici resources when figuring his exile to mitigate the potential damages of his infrequent writing. Thus, we selected excerpts from letters written by Cicero in his exile and analyzed how he used pathos for the preservation of his ethos by means of his epistolary discourse. Cicero's exile allowed him to write in a unique way, which subverted the expected behavior of an aristocrat by using his pathos.
- Subjects
CICERO, Marcus Tullius, 106 B.C.-43 B.C.; SOCIAL distance; ARISTOCRACY (Social class); LETTER writing; EXILE (Punishment)
- Publication
Rónai - Revista de Estudos Classicos e Tradutorios, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 2, p22
- ISSN
2318-3446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34019/2318-3446.2021.v9.35783