Poetic Invectives. Strategies of legitimation between literary tradition and fictitious orality (B)

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Against the background of the assumption that invective speech was a violation of social rules also in ancient Rome, the Latinist sub-project explores the explicit and implicit strategies used in poetic texts from the Later Republic and the early Roman Empire to justify linguistic violence (e. g., self-defense narratives, framing as moral rebuke or objective criticism, enactment as spontaneous idea or virtuoso punchline). Since the self-attribution to a literary tradition (in particular satire, iambic, mocking epigram) can also be understood as part of the legitimation strategy, the texts will be considered as a mutually influencing field of poetic invective.