Influence et réception du poète Martial, de sa mort à nos jours

This volume Influence et réception du poète Martial, de sa mort à nos jours contains the papers delivered at the international symposium, held under the same title at the University of Paris Nanterre on October 24 and 25, 2019. They all come from recognized specialists in the field and are presented here in a chronologico-thematic order.

We intended to focus on the reception and influence of Martial in the West, an author who, with the exception of a small eclipse in the Middle Ages, was widely read, imitated, translated, adapted, in Latin and in all the languages of Europe, and which symbolized for a long time the epigrammatic genre itself.

Of course we did not pretend to comprehensively examine all aspects of such a vast subject. We wanted, more modestly, by crossed and plural approaches (study of the handwritten transmission, history of the editions and translations, intertextuality, literary influence, etc.), to show the importance of the posthumous destiny of Martial.

The papers, rich and varied, some synthetic, others more specific, have in any case covered a wide field. They constitute a solid introduction to the history of the reception of Martial that was hitherto lacking.