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The Question of the Marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil
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Abstract
In his epigrams Martial repeatedly passes judgement on the failings of the grand genres of epic and tragedy. In 10.4 he rebukes tragedy for its stubborn insistence on producing nothing but monstra, uana . . . miserae ludibria chartae ‘monstrosities, empty sports of a miserable sheet of paper’ (cf. Hor. Ars Poet. 7–8 aegri somnia ‘the dreams of a sick man’, uanae . . . species ‘empty shapes’).
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Title: The Question of the Marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil
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Abstract
In his epigrams Martial repeatedly passes judgement on the failings of the grand genres of epic and tragedy.
In 10.
4 he rebukes tragedy for its stubborn insistence on producing nothing but monstra, uana .
.
.
miserae ludibria chartae ‘monstrosities, empty sports of a miserable sheet of paper’ (cf.
Hor.
Ars Poet.
7–8 aegri somnia ‘the dreams of a sick man’, uanae .
.
.
species ‘empty shapes’).
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