![]() ![]() A more synthetic discussion can be found in R. Zingerle, Martial's Ovid–Studien (1877) deals with allusions to Ovid, Siedschlag, while E., ‘ Ovidisches bei Martial’, RIFC 100 ( 1972), 156–61, Google Scholar picks up some possible echoes missed by Zingerle. Valerio Martiale Poetarum Augusteae Aetatis Imitatore (1880), less incisively than Paukstadt, but still usefully, covers Martial's references to the Augustan poets. Note also Ferguson, J., ‘ Catullus and Martial’, PACA 6 ( 1963), 3– 15 Google Scholar. elegant libellus, De Martiale Catulli Imitatore ( 1876) Google Scholar, treats Martial's references to Catullus see esp. White develops further theses regarding literary culture in the early Empire in ‘ The friends of Martial, Statius and Pliny, and the dispersal of patronage’, HSCP 79 ( 1975), 265– 300 Google Scholar and ‘ Amicitia and the profession of poetry in early imperial Rome’, JRS 68 ( 1978), 74 Google Scholar ff.Ģ3 Paukstadt's, R. I follow Merli, Citroni, and Fowler in insisting on the importance of publication, not just for the literary significance of the collection and its ordering, but for the significance of publication as a literary/social/propagandistic event. White further asserts, however, that these libelli constituted the primary context for the poetry's reception, and that the published book was something of a by-product. ![]() White, P., ‘ The presentation and dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams’, JRS 64 ( 1974), 40– 61, Google Scholar persuasively argues for their existence on the basis of references in Martial and Statius. 45 ( 1993), 229–56, Google Scholar for a discussion of the structuring of Martial's books in terms of content and addressees and Citroni, M., ‘ Publicazione e dediche dei libri in Marziale’, Maia 40 ( 1988), 3– 39 Google Scholar. See also Merli, E., ‘ Ordinamento degli Epigrammi e strategic cortigiane negli esordi dei Libri I–XII’, Maia n.s. Sullivan (1995), 199–226, is the central work on the topic, and decisively establishes the importance and literary interest of the book in Martial. Boyle (ed.), Roman Literature and Ideology: Ramus Essays for J. According to the most salient and pervasive fiction characterizing Martial's work, epigram is an ephemeral form of literature embedded in specific, social contexts, and dedicated to immediate uses.Ĥ D. The epigrammatist not only registers his genre's formal rank, he develops fully articulated fictional scenarios depicting the nature of his writing and its role in society. Martial's denigration of his own oeuvre, however, goes beyond consciousness of epigram's status as a low genre. Such self-disparagement is not necessarily surprising, since there is no reason to imagine that Martial's success as an epigrammatist would alter his genre's place in the traditional hierarchy of literary seriousness. In his last book, at the end of a successful, literary career, Martial asks in regard to his own genre of epigram: ‘quid minus esse potest?’ (‘What can be humbler?’, 12.95). The book sidles up to the reader it no longer presents itself as existing in itself, but rather as existing for something other, and for this very reason the reader feels cheated of what is best in it. The dignity that characterizes something self-contained, lasting, hermetic - something that absorbs the reader and closes the lid over him, as it were, the way the cover of the book closes on the text - has been set aside as inappropriate to the times. Around the world, covers have become advertisements for their books. ![]()
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