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Inscribing Flavian Rome : epigraphic strategies in Martial's epigrams / Alessandra Tafaro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tafaro, Alessandra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martial. Epigrammata.
- Martial.
- Epigrams, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epigrams, Latin.
- Inscriptions, Latin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This volume offers an investigation of Martial's engagement with Roman epigraphic habits and proposes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture. It argues that epigrammatic poetry and epigraphic writing are complementary cultural activities, involving thematic and generic interactions and intersecting audiences.
- Contents:
- 1. Consuming epigrams: between epigraphic strategies and literary conventions
- 2. Amphitheatrical poetics: power and monuments in martial’s liber spectaculorum
- 3. Performing damnatio memoriae: martial’s epigrams 10 second edition
- 4. Compressing and distilling, quoting and fragmenting: the poem-objects of martial’s xenia and apophoreta
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780198962502
- 0198962509
- OCLC:
- 1535633589
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000290427
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