Lóio, Ana Maria dos Santos, 1980-2018-01-252018-01-252014Lóio, A. (2014), ‘Inheriting speech: talking books come to Flavian Rome’, Flavian Poetry and Its Greek Past. Ed. A. Augoustakis, Leiden/ Boston, Brill, 373-9197890042664839789004266490http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30961Martial reworks the Hellenistic tradition of writing epigrams on poets, in its several types, celebrating himself as well as others. Indeed the epigrammatist produces his own epitaph, which is to be inscribed on his own statue in Avitus' library is a self-homage, which some have thought destined to accompany his portrait; a distich on Virgil, one in a series of "tags" for books, would seem to fulfill the same function; Silius and Lucan are also among those commended. Further, Martial experimented with the rare type of epigrams spoken by a book: for instance, the Greek Batrachomachia has something to say about itself-in Latin, and the tenth book anticipates problems of weight before the reader even starts reading it. This chapter focuses on the poet's fresh and bold reenactment of such a peculiar tradition.engMarcial, Marco Valério, 0040?-0104? - Crítica e interpretaçãoEpigramabook part