RT Book, Section
T1 Literature and Integration in Martial and Pliny the Younger
A1 Moreno Soldevila, Rosario
K1 Martial
K1 Pliny the Younger
K1 Epigrams
K1 Integration
K1 Latin literature
AB As variegated collections of sundry literary pieces addressed to many recipients, Martial’s Epigrams and Pliny’s Letters can be said to symbolise the intricacies of our topic, that is, the integration of diversity into a complex whole: the books of epigrams, the collection of letters, the Roman Empire. This chapter first focuses on how these authors’ literary works encompass different (even contradictory) ideas about the integration of regional, cultural and social diversity. It then enquires into how literature itself becomes a non-formal vehicle for integration, not always seen as a unidirectional force – irradiating from the centre to the peripheries – but as an apparently multidirectional exchange. The final section takes a more evasive, speculative approach, which chimes with the elusiveness of the object of study, analysing Martial’s use of a literary topos – books personified as migrants – as a reflection of his personal and artistic struggle to integrate.
PB Brill Academic Publishers
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16783
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16783
LA en
NO Understanding Integration in the Roman World, 157–174
NO Identificador de proyecto: UPO‐1260377-FEDER
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide
DS RIO
RD May 22, 2026