El tópico del justo medio en los Epigramas de Marco V. Marcial
Martial’s epigrams are considered the best picture of Rome during the Flavian period. A first approach to his work impresses the reader by the excess and the vices of the described society and by the obscenity of the language used by the writer. However, on a deeper reading, there are discovered co...
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| Sumario: | Martial’s epigrams are considered the best picture of Rome during
the Flavian period. A first approach to his work impresses the reader by the excess and the vices of the described society and by the obscenity of the language used by the writer. However, on a deeper reading, there are discovered compositions of great beauty, and there is also recognized a voice exposing a philosophy of life that extol simplicity and restraint and condemn excesses. The purpose of this paper is to analyze some epigrams where mediocritas is explicitly considered as an ‘ideal
of life’, and to comment on other epigrams in which the epigrammatist
negatively criticizes intemperantia. |
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