La critica, per 10 piu" , tende ad accomunare Ie vane tecniche paratattiche e ad interpretarle in modo globale. Talvolta esse sono avvertite come un accumulo di azioni, un metodo per dare unita" e ritmo al racconto 1 , talaltra come spie di una semplicita" simulata, che cela un' assenza di fatto del protagonista, "an outsider in the world, to whom reality presents itself in disconnected sequences, without meaningful hierarchies"2 0, ancora, il mezzo escogitato dal protagonista-autore per proteggersi contro un' esplorazione approfondita dei propri sentimenti, che si rivela, pero", contemporaneamente, una gabbia, una prigione nei cui limiti egli stesso si rinchiude 3 • In realta" la prima impressione che si ricava da una struttura della frase semplice, paratattica, e" quella di un desiderio di ricalcare un linguaggio parlato e la limitata capacita" sintattica popolare. In modo particolare it polisindeto, piu" frequente nei primi romanzi, si mostra adatto per riportare dei racconti all'intemo della trama principale 4 • In proposito si trova un esempio gia" nelle prime pagine
Ancient commentators have always paid considerable attention to the rhetorical aspects of the speeches composed by Virgil in the Aeneid. They are fictitious dialogues but modelled, at least partially, on the public debates of the late Republic and Virgil’s own times. The Council of the Gods (Aen. 10.1-117) is perhaps the passage in which the use of rhetoric is most evident. The trialogue between Jupiter, Venus and Juno can also be examined in the context of the doctrine of (im)politeness. Each protagonist uses specific strategies to interact with the others. Late antiquity exegesis also analyses in some notes the attitude of the speakers, highlighting polite or impolite behaviours. The aim of the article is twofold: on the one hand, it follows the development of the trialogue according to modern doctrines of (im)politeness to have an ‘ethic’ analysis of the debate. On the other hand, it will examine the commentators’ notes, both those explaining the rhetorical strategies and those highlighting the attitude of the speakers, in order to assess ‘emic’ perceptions of (im)politeness.
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