AUDIOVISUAL PERSPECTIVES OF SPACE IN LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
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https://doi.org/10.1344/AFAM202121136403Keywords:
Lucian of Samosata, sensorial perception, ékphrasis, enárgeia, narrative, laliáAbstract
Studies in sensorial perception of space in the Classical Antiquity are currently trendy. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyze and demonstrate how the sight and the audition senses have a special role to build an imaginary space in Lucian of Samosata.
On the one hand, in True Stories we identify sensorial evocations activating a fiction as vivid, so the public would experiment the circumstantiae of the plot in his own mind: something that appears ironically hyper realistic. On the other hand, we find similar examples and, specially, more reflexive ones that reproduce the space in The Hall, in which the main subject is the topographic circumstantia of a declamation room that would be a metaphor of the good techniques, which a sophist executes in their discourses.
Hence, we will demonstrate how the Samosata’s writer used to apply the sensorial perception to make the public more interested and immersed in the spaces of the plot, imagining it as vividly as Lucian describes them.
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