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Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial''s Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close readings of Martial''s poems and their contextualization through legal, historiographic, rhetorical, and grammatical discussions.This book discusses the social roles assigned to women in Roman society, where they were at once called to represent their fathers and reproduce their husbands, together with the question of to what extent they are depicted as semiotic signifiers in Martial''s corpus. Noting socially aberrant behavior by pointedly using the discourse of grammar and its categories to detect and address the social issues of his time, Martial—a poet who distinctively adopts the role of a surrogate censor for Domitian—constructs the women he depicts in both negative and positive ways as signs of thei

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 7 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780198920304
      978-0198920304
      ISBN-10 019892030X

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      Book Synopsis
      Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial''s Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close readings of Martial''s poems and their contextualization through legal, historiographic, rhetorical, and grammatical discussions.This book discusses the social roles assigned to women in Roman society, where they were at once called to represent their fathers and reproduce their husbands, together with the question of to what extent they are depicted as semiotic signifiers in Martial''s corpus. Noting socially aberrant behavior by pointedly using the discourse of grammar and its categories to detect and address the social issues of his time, Martial—a poet who distinctively adopts the role of a surrogate censor for Domitian—constructs the women he depicts in both negative and positive ways as signs of thei

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