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By William Fitzgerald
In this age of the sound chunk, what kind of writer should be extra correct than a grasp of the epigram? Martial, the main influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was once simply this sort of virtuoso of the shape, yet regardless of his pertinence to today’s tradition, his paintings has been mostly ignored in modern scholarship. Arguing that Martial is an incredible writer who merits extra sustained awareness, William Fitzgerald offers an insightful journey of his works, laying off new and much-needed gentle at the Roman poet’s world—and the way it may possibly converse to our own.
Writing within the past due first century CE—when the epigram used to be firmly embedded within the social lifetime of the Roman elite—Martial released his poems in a chain of books that have been largely learn and loved. Exploring what it capacity to learn this sort of choice of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical courting among the self-enclosed epigram and the publication of poems that's greater than the sum of its elements. And he is going directly to exhibit how Martial, by way of imagining those books being displayed in retailers and shipped around the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a contemporary writer. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in either Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s examine will pride classicists, literary students, and an individual who appreciates an inventive witticism.
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S p e c tac l e a n d M y t h : P e r p e t uat i n g t h e E p h e m e r a l The parading of delatores receives a second epigram (Spec. 5) in which Martial turns a clever compliment to the emperor, who has sacrificed the income derived from the victims of delation. But there is something familiar about the first line of this couplet: 44 · c h a p t e r t w o Exulat Ausonia profugus delator ab urbe: haec licet impensis principis adnumeres. The informer, a fugitive, is banished from the Ausonian city: you can chalk that up to the emperor’s expenses.
10 Meleager arranged poems in his anthology according to the four categories of erotic, epitaphic, anathematic (dedicatory), and epideictic (descriptive or narrative), all of which types feature in Martial. 11 This kind of arrangement survives in Martial’s Apophoreta and Xenia, but nothing could be further from the arrangement of his twelve numbered books, which juxtapose poems that diverge sharply, often aggressively, in type, subject matter, and tone. 12 The arrangement of these epigrams is according to theme, as in the anthology of Meleager.
O Lucina ferox, hoc peperisse fuit? (Spec. 1–4) Strategies of the Spectacle · 47 During the savage crises of Caesar’s hunt, a light spear pierced a pregnant sow. The offspring leapt from the womb of its unfortunate mother. Fierce Lucina, was this, then, childbirth? The sequence opens with a periphrasis that serves, at first, simply to locate the event in the “perils” (discrimina) of “the emperor’s venatio (Diana),” but it mutates retrospectively into an expression of the difference (discrimina) between the two Dianas at the end of second poem: experta est numen moriens utriusque Dianae, quaque soluta parens quaque perempta fera est.