The Epigrams
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The Epigrams
(Penguin classics)
Penguin Books, 1978
- : pbk
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Translated from the Latin
Parallel Latin text and English translation, English introduction and notes
"This translation first published by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd 1973"--T.p. verso
Includes index
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Martial, like many of the Latin poets, was born in Bibilis, Spain, probably around 38-41 AD. He appears to have lived in Rome for nearly thirty-four years, under the patronage of the great Spaniard Senaca the Younger. He belonged to a class of intellectuals who were in resolute opposition to the emperor Domitian, so many times figures like Cicero, Brutus, and Pompey are used as literary devices against the crazed tyrant. Martial's poems are definitely modeled off of Catullus' epigrams and elegiac verses, although they are different in meaning and theme. These poems are hilarious and audacious, cruel, lewd, charming, spiteful, and creative; and they bring to life the social and political milieu of Rome.
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