Ilaria Marchesi is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, where she directs the Classics program. She is the author of The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence, on the intertextuality in the letters of Pliny the Younger (Cambridge 2008), for which she received an NEH grant. She edited and contributed to Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity in the Epistles (Oxford 2015). She has published articles on Horace, Petronius, Martial, and, in collaboration with Simone Marchesi, wrote Live in Pompeii, on the cultural value of the archeological past (Garzanti 2016).

After reading Women in Martial with appetite, interest and attention, it has already become one of my favorites. To my mind, it is a commendable, entertaining and serious piece of scholarship.

• Preface Introduction Plan of the Volume PART 1: Guardian of Signs 1: as Signs 2: Bodies 3: Typology of Martial's Women: Resisting, Controlling, and Subverting Signifiers PART 2: Phenomenology of Transgression 4: 1: Resisting Self-Erasure 5: 2: Dominating the Semiotic Field 6: 3: Shaping and Shifting Conclusion: A Glance Back Epilogue: A Way Forward Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

Ilaria Marchesi is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, where she directs the Classics program. She is the author of The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence, on the intertextuality in the letters of Pliny the Younger (Cambridge 2008), for which she received an NEH grant. She edited and contributed to Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity in the Epistles (Oxford 2015). She has published articles on Horace, Petronius, Martial, and, in collaboration with Simone Marchesi, wrote Live in Pompeii, on the cultural value of the archeological past (Garzanti 2016).

After reading Women in Martial with appetite, interest and attention, it has already become one of my favorites. To my mind, it is a commendable, entertaining and serious piece of scholarship.

• Preface Introduction Plan of the Volume PART 1: Guardian of Signs 1: as Signs 2: Bodies 3: Typology of Martial's Women: Resisting, Controlling, and Subverting Signifiers PART 2: Phenomenology of Transgression 4: 1: Resisting Self-Erasure 5: 2: Dominating the Semiotic Field 6: 3: Shaping and Shifting Conclusion: A Glance Back Epilogue: A Way Forward Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

Ilaria Marchesi is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, where she directs the Classics program. She is the author of The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence, on the intertextuality in the letters of Pliny the Younger (Cambridge 2008), for which she received an NEH grant. She edited and contributed to Pliny the Book-Maker: Betting on Posterity in the Epistles (Oxford 2015). She has published articles on Horace, Petronius, Martial, and, in collaboration with Simone Marchesi, wrote Live in Pompeii, on the cultural value of the archeological past (Garzanti 2016).

After reading Women in Martial with appetite, interest and attention, it has already become one of my favorites. To my mind, it is a commendable, entertaining and serious piece of scholarship.

• Preface Introduction Plan of the Volume PART 1: Guardian of Signs 1: as Signs 2: Bodies 3: Typology of Martial's Women: Resisting, Controlling, and Subverting Signifiers PART 2: Phenomenology of Transgression 4: 1: Resisting Self-Erasure 5: 2: Dominating the Semiotic Field 6: 3: Shaping and Shifting Conclusion: A Glance Back Epilogue: A Way Forward Bibliography Index Locorum General Index