Open AccessIlRisusdi Canio Rufo e ilLususdi Marziale (3.20)
Author(s) -
Alessandro LAGIOIA
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lexis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2724-1564
pISSN - 2210-8823
DOI - 10.30687/lexis/2210-8823/2020/01/011
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , interpretation (philosophy) , laughter , meaning (existential) , philosophy , literature , reflexive pronoun , linguistics , art , epistemology , mathematics , geometry
The contribution traces a profile of the character of Canius Rufus, Martial’s friend and a poet himself, according to the information contained in several epigrams. Moreover, it proposes a re-interpretation of epigr. 3.20 as an elegant literary lusus , written by Martial on the basis of three literary hypotexts (Hor. epist. 1.3 and 8 and Catull. 55). This character of the composition makes it possible to assign a different meaning to Canius Rufuse’s laughter at its end.