Martial: Epigrams Of Martial (cloth) - Hardcover

Martial

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ISBN 10: 0520042409 ISBN 13: 9780520042407

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

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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.

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