Stephen Hinds

Allusion and intertext : dynamics of appropriation in Roman poetry

Preface List of abbreviations 1. Reflexivity: allusion and self-annotation 2. Interpretability: beyond philological fundamentalism 3. Diachrony: literary history and its narratives 4. Repetition and change 5. Tradition and self-fashioning Bibliography Index.

Martial's Ovid / Ovid's Martial

This paper allows Ovid to shape a reading of Martial, and Martial to shape a reading of Ovid. It proceeds through close readings of some 40 epigrams, and is organized into three large sections respectively addressing receptions in Martial of Ovids poetry of elegiac love (I), of exile (II), and of myth (III). The final section offers sustained discussion of Martials early Apophoreta (Book 14) and Liber Spectaculorum. Issues addressed include genre, intertextuality, sexual vocabulary and euphemism, exile as a figure for status anxiety, the metapoetics of book production, ecphrastic movement between art and epigrammatic text, and the aesthetics of myth in the Roman arena.