El ocio de los poetas (Cicerón, Catulo, Calvo)
- 1 I.E.S. La Fuensanta (Córdoba)
- Jesús de la Villa Polo (coord.)
- Antonio López Fonseca (coord.)
- Emma Falque Rey (coord.)
- María Paz de Hoz García-Bellido (coord.)
- María José Muñoz Jiménez (coord.)
- Irene Villarroel Fernández (coord.)
- Victoria Recio Muñoz (coord.)
Publisher: Guillermo Escolar Editor ; Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos
ISBN: 978-84-18981-13-5, 978-84-09-34325-6, 978-84-09-34322-5, 978-84-09-34323-2
Year of publication: 2021
Volume: 1
Pages: 695-702
Congress: Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos (15. 2019. Valladolid)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The notion of literary field comes from the French sociologist Bourdieu. In Rome the literary field is inseparable from the notion of otium. In this paper we observe Cicero and Catulo in their positions on the otium, which reveal their greater or lesser independence from the political sphere. In the specific case of Catullus and his relationship with the positions of the literary field, we can distinguish between professional poets, almost always foreigners, such as Archias or Ennius; amateur poets, a position usually occupied by aristocrats such as Lutatius Catulus or people who practice otium at the intervals of their political life, such as Cicero; and finally, there is the position occupied by people who value his activity as a poet at a higher level than political activity in the service of the res publica. Since it is occupied only occasionally, this position is usually very unstable. That’s why Catullus experiences an internal division with his use of the otium.