As origens greco-latinas da nichtaristotelianische Dramatik senequiana

Abstract

In The Anxiety of Influence (Oxford 1975 repr.), Harold Bloom is aware of the possibility that modern scholars may have recourse to good authors and most recent works in order to achieve a better understanding of the older ones. Based on this presupposition, J. A. Segurado e Campos, in “Séneca, Brecht e o teatro épico” (Classica 23 1999 9-26), sustained that the referred dramatists' poetics have in common the fact of being «não aristotélicas» (“not aristotelic”). Here what is aimed to be proved is that Seneca did not create anything ex nihilo: he developed and joined, in a coherent unit, aspects which in nuce and in a vague and somewhat marginal way were possible to be found in preceding authors: dialogical and descriptive scenes, which do not allow the progress of the action; the casting of the spectator in characters' irreversible medios affectus and the didactic purposes of the dramas.