A adivinhação na Pharsalia de Lucano

• Autor(a) principal: Bruno, Pauliane Targino da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/51145
• topic: Épica Romana; Lucano; Pharsalia; Divination; Roman Epic

The present study investigates the divination in Lucan’s Pharsalia. Divination is a very old religious practice, which consists mainly in the search for knowledge of past, present or future events and permeates religious, political, literary and philosophical contexts of a time, a place. Thus, considering these contexts, we intend to confirm the hypothesis that divination in Pharsalia mainly performs two functions: the narrative, when counting the death of Pompey and that of Caesar, and the reflective, when approaching meta-divination, philosophy and politics. In the development of this hypothesis, divination is at first considered in the contexts in which it is inserted; then the divinatory manifestations present in Pharsalia are analyzed. The study of divination in this poem is divided into three parts: “divination in book 1”, “divination and dreams” and “divination and oracles”. Each of these parts is examined regardind the nature of the divinatory processes (presentation, execution of the rite and prophecy), the connection established between them and their relation to the poem. Finally, the functions performed by divination in the Pharsalia (narrative and reflexive) are discussed. In this way, it is revealed that Lucan uses divination as a narrative and a reflective resource; in this second case, to discuss in particular its validity and its social roles.