Martial: Select Epigrams
Martial: Select Epigrams
June 2003
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Ninety poems by Martial, the first-century a.d. epigrammatist, are presented, with commentary, in this edition. Selected on the basis of their thematic importance, these concise poems provide an unique opportunity to interpret a significantly neglected author. The book considers the sociocultural and historical matrix from which the epigrams sprang and the Roman love of personal invective which sustains and enlivens a major portion of Martial's work.
- Provides the only available selection of poems to offer a fully representative picture of Martial's output and thematic concerns
- Offers the briefest comprehensive introduction to Martial's work as a whole
- Takes full account of recent scholarly developments in Roman epigram and Roman social history
Reviews & endorsements
"...an important contribution to the interpretation of Martial's works...This anthology will certainly be of great help for our understanding of the epigrams and inspire further research." BMCR
Product details
June 2003Paperback
9780521555395
388 pages
188 × 125 × 25 mm
0.416kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Select epigrams
- 1. Martial and poetry
- 2. Poet and patron
- 3. Martial and the city of Rome
- 4. Women
- 5. Sexual mores
- 6. Satirical epigrams
- 7. Epideictic epigrams
- 8. Funerary epigrams
- Commentary
- Bibliography
- Indexes.
