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Synopsis
This is a selection from Martial's 12 books of epigrams. Each expresses an idea, usually in the form of satire. The verses describe the vices of the age, telling of fortune hunters, gluttons, drunkards, debauchers, hypocrites and stingy patrons. The Latin text appears in parallel.
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Martial, . . . concentrating on the epigram as his one form of literary expression, brought it to a pitch of technical perfection never afterwards rivaled. Peter Howell"
"Martial, . . . concentrating on the epigram as his one form of literary expression, brought it to a pitch of technical perfection never afterwards rivaled." --Peter Howell
-Martial, . . . concentrating on the epigram as his one form of literary expression, brought it to a pitch of technical perfection never afterwards rivaled.- --Peter Howell
About the Author
James Michie studied classics at Trinity College, Oxford. His other translations include The Poems of Catullus and Horace's Odes (available as a Modern Library Paperback Classic). His Collected Poems was awarded the Hawthornden Prize.
Shadi Bartsch is Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago, the editor in chief of Classical Philology, and the author of Decoding the Ancient Novel; Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's "Civil War"; and Actors in the Audi-ence: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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