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Martial: Select Epigrams

Martial: Select Epigrams

Martial: Select Epigrams

Martial
Lindsay Watson, University of Sydney
Patricia Watson, University of Sydney
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

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    Product details

    June 2003
    Paperback
    9780521555395
    388 pages
    188 × 125 × 25 mm
    0.416kg
    Available

    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.
    • Martial
    • Editors
    • Lindsay Watson , University of Sydney

      Lindsay Watson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney and the author of Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (1991).

    • Patricia Watson , University of Sydney

      Patricia Watson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney and author of Ancient Stepmothers: Myth, Misogyny and Reality (1995).