Antonella Bruzzone (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
PARADOSSO, METAMORFOSI, SPETTACOLO. SUGGESTIONI OVIDIANE NELLA GIGANTOMACHIA LATINA DI CLAUDIANO
Keywords: Claudian, Ovid, Gigantomachy, aesthetics of war, visuality.
Abstract: Paradox, metamorphosis, spectacle. Ovidian suggestions in Claudian’s Latin Gigantomachy. In the portrayal of the Gigantomachia, one of Claudian’s most congenial mythological themes, the visual and spectacular character of his poetry is brought out. Particularly in the Latin Gigantomachia (carm. min. 53), Claudian is careful to capture the plastic and pictorial aspects of the episode, as well as its paradoxical and admirable features, with a technique that can be defined as ecphrastic. These modalities bring Claudian close to Ovid, to his poetics of visuality and spectacularisation, in line with some of the tendencies that characterise the reception of Ovid in late antique aesthetics.