Abstract

LEJAVITZER LAPOUJADE, Amalia. The Role of Recitationes in the Composition of Martial's Epigrams: Between Orality and Literacy. Nova tellus [online]. 2011, vol.29, n.2, pp.129-138. ISSN 0185-3058.

Based mainly on Martial' Epigrams, as well as on the texts of some contemporary authors as Juvenalis, Tacitus, and Pliny The Younger, this article studies the recitationes in Rome in the first century A. D. as a cultural phenomenon between orality and literacy. It demonstrates that recitations directly influenced the process of creation, correction and "edition" of latin literary texts of the first century A. D. As a result of this, the importance that oral performance had for literary creation is shown.

Keywords : Recitationes; literary creation; Epigrams; Martial; orality; literacy.

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