Poetic Invectives. Strategies of legitimation between literary tradition and fictitious orality (B)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317232170

Against the background of the assumption that invective speech was a violation of social rules also in ancient Rome, the Latinist sub-project explores the explicit and implicit strategies used in poetic texts from the Later Republic and the early Roman Empire to justify linguistic violence (e. g., self-defense narratives, framing as moral rebuke or objective criticism, enactment as spontaneous idea or virtuoso punchline). Since the self-attribution to a literary tradition (in particular satire, iambic, mocking epigram) can also be understood as part of the legitimation strategy, the texts will be considered as a mutually influencing field of poetic invective.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1285: Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Dennis Pausch