Reprezentări agonale în elegia erotică latină

A mental model of Greco-Roman antiquity, the agon (whose dominant meaning is that of competition, confrontation) initially manifested itself in the religious space as a ritualistic scenario linked to the cult of the dead, a nucleus that later moved to the secular space, where the agora became the scene of debate on public issues. The transfer to the sphere of philosophical and ethical reflection, literature and art led to the discursivisation of the model (the shift from praxis to logos), with the whole of ancient spirituality involving a continuous training to achieve human excellence (a heroism of training and affirmation of the individual by mirroring athletic perfection). The Latin erotic elegy takes up the model of the agon as amorous debate between lovers (identity/otherness), becoming the discursive birthplace of the self, interiority and subjectivity (as these concepts would evolve in Western modernity).