Tears in Horace’s «Satires»

Authors

  • Giulia Beghini Università degli Studi di Verona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1721-4777/16720

Keywords:

Horace, gestures, pragmatic of human communication, Satires, tears

Abstract

The article aims to study the tears within Horace’s Satires, or in other words, in a genre that has its identity gesture in the opposite laughter. Such an investigation, supported by the tools of the pragmatics of human communication and linguistic and stylistic analysis, shows how the poet integrated tears into his satirical work. The analysis concerns the presence, contexts, functions, effects, and linguistic expressions used in describing the crying gesture with considerations also on their register.

Published

2023-12-27

How to Cite

Beghini, G. (2023). Tears in Horace’s «Satires». Griseldaonline, 22(2), 189–206. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1721-4777/16720

Issue

Section

Omnibus