L’evento morte e la teoria del potere: incunaboli ovidiani per lo sviluppo di un’ideologia coerente circa la vita ultraterrena dell’imperatore romano

Abstract

This research focuses on the cultural interrelations arouse by the rites of the emperor’s death in Rome. It rebuilds and analyzes, starting from the inventive concerning the theme contained in the Ovidian’s works, the loci, the description formulas, and the cultural codes. It refers in particular to the literature, that concerns the death of the Roman emperor, which is analyzed from the point of view of rhetoric. In this way, we show a fiction or, if you prefer, a dubious reality, which hides a forcing. And so, it introduces a witness, which confirms the veracity of deification.