O princeps e o poeta: considerações sobre a estrutura e o arranjo interno do Livro 8 de Marcial
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[1] Universidade de São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo
Brasil
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- Localización: Ágora: estudos clássicos em debate, ISSN 0874-5498, Nº. 20, 2018, págs. 107-134
- Idioma: portugués
- Títulos paralelos:
- The princeps and the poet: considerations on the structure and internal arrangement of Martial’s Book 8
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Resumen
The internal architecture of a poetry book, that is, the arrangement or disposition of the poems within it, can affect the interpretation of both the poem individually and the set of which it is a part (the book). In the case of Martial’s work, whose epigram books are carefully organized, this aspect should also not be ignored. In this paper, I describe how the epigrams are organized within the Book 8. I also try to demonstrate that such an arrangement aims, above all, to contribute to the poetʹ s greater objective, which is the construction of the praise of the dedicatee and dominant figure in the book: the emperor Domitian
