Bad Scorpion
Cacemphaton and Poetics in Martial's Ligurinus-Cycle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9675608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bret Mulligan (0000-0002-7593-6917, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-395 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/clw.2013.0056 |
| OpenAlex | W2046090099 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
A bilingual cacemphaton in Martial 3.44 allows the author to blur the categories of chaste and obscene language, furnishing a moment of ribald humor in a section of book 3 that Martial claims is free from Latin obscenity. The cacemphaton recasts an unusual reference to a scorpion as a more familiar socio-sexual threat: the σκῶρ-πέος of a pedicator . It risks charging the epigram's mundane activities with erotic significance and contributes to a nexus of sexual, culinary, and literary imagery in the short cycle of poems against poetaster Ligurinus (3.44, 45, 50), suggesting why his verses give no pleasure and how they corrupt food and ruin meals
Art · Literature · Pleasure · Poetics · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Psychology
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Metaformations
Martial on Patronage and Literature
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |