TY  - JOUR
A1  - Merli, Elena
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Nota sul Silio Italico ‹politico› negli epigrammi di Marziale
JF  - thersites = tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - In Martial’s epigrams Silius Italicus is portrayed as a man of learning, author of the Punica and admirer of Vergil’s works, but also as a public figure and a former consul of Rome. My paper focuses on the epigrams devoted to the ‘political’ Silius, and suggests to relate them mainly to a certain stage in Silius Italicus’ life and to a specific communication strategy.
KW  - Silius Italicus
KW  - Martial
KW  - Pliny the Younger
KW  - Neronian age
KW  - otium–negotium
KW  - literary patronage
KW  - senatorial class
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.175
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 205
EP  - 217
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grewing, Farouk F.
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - A Saturnalian poet as a literary critic
BT  - the carnivalesque poetics of Martial’s Apophoreta 183-196
JF  - thersites = tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - This paper analyzes a specific section of Martial’s Apophoreta (Book 14), the ‘list’ of fourteen literary works that the poet-persona suggests to the reader as potentially suitable presents to give to friends on the occasion of the Saturnalia. It focuses strictly on the literary aspects of the poems and their underlying carnivalesque poetics. This includes an assessment of the logic of the poems’ arrangement and alleged inconsistencies. It is suggested that the section be read as a complex statement of Martial’s on various works and genres of Greek and Roman literature. The last couplet of the section (14.196), a certain Calvus’ work ‘On the use of cold water’ (De aquae frigidae usu), which is unidentifiable, receives particular attention, for previous scholarship has wasted a lot of ink on guessing what kind of work this may have been, thereby losing touch with the rich (meta-)poetics the couplet actually conveys.
KW  - Martial
KW  - epigram
KW  - Saturnalia
KW  - poetics
KW  - Apophoreta
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.170
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 176
EP  - 204
ER  -