On Some Antecedents of More’s Epigrams 199, 210, and 214
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20144397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Clay Doyle (0000-0001-7070-8811, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 36 (Number 139 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 49-56 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.1999.36.3-4.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2482609844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
More’s epigrams 199, 210, and 214, brief narratives about a drunkard who goes blind rather than give up alcohol, adapt Martial 6.78. The joke behind More’s and Martial’s poems flourished in jetsbooks of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as in later oral tradition. However, More’s epigrams also belong to an old and continuing tradition of structurally-similar jests (and proverbs associated with those jests) that feature a character who chooses blindness in preference to sexual abstinence
Abstinence · Art · Blindness · Character (mathematics) · Joke · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Preference · Theology · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Renaissance Literature and Culture
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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