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Epigramas Vol. IV

Faz agora 1900 anos que desapareceu Marcial, o maior epigramatista da literatura ocidental. A publicação deste último volume dos seus poemas, reunindo os Livros X a XIV, é a forma que escolhemos de o celebrar nessa data. Além dos dois livros de dísticos destinados a acompanhar os presentes oferecidos pelas Saturnais, apresentam-se aqui os três livros que escreveu após o assassínio de Domiciano, o último dos quais, composto já na Hispânia natal, para onde regressou depois de 34 anos na fervilhante Roma, veio a lume pouco tempo antes de morrer.

211 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2004

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Marcus Valerius Martialis

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Born: March 1, 40 AD, in Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain); Died: ca. 102 AD--Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. Considered the creator of the modern epigram, Martial wrote a total of 1,561 - 1,235 of which are in elegiac couplets.

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