Martial''s Rome - Empire and the Ideology of Epigram

Informationen zum Autor Victoria Rimell is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Rome, La Sapieza. She has published Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction (2002), Ovid's Lovers (2006) and Martial's Rome (2008), and has also contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 2005) and Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (edited by Jason Konig and Tim Whitmarsh, 2007). Klappentext Explores Martial's radical vision of the relationship between art and reality and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. Zusammenfassung A study of the poetics of the Epigrams which explores Martial's radical vision of the relationship between art and reality and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. This is a major contribution to the rehabilitation of Martial and to the understanding of Flavian literature and Roman material culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: getting to know Martial; 1. Copyright and contagion: the city as text; 2. Vigor Mortis: living and dying; 3. Poetic economies: figuring out Martial's maths; 4. Mundus inversus: Martial's Saturnalia; 5. The space of epigram; Epilogue.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dr. Victoria E. Rimell, Victoria Rimell, Victoria E. Rimell
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521828222
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82822-2
• Pagine: 240
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Libri scolastici per istituti a indirizzo generale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata