Epigramas. Vol. II. Libros 8-14

by Marcus Valerius Martialis

Es este el segundo volumen de la edición de la colección de epigramas que se recogen en el Liber spectaculorum o Epigrammaton liber de Marcial. Aparecen en este volumen un índice de ediciones y de comentarios que se citan en el aparato crítico de la obra, una relación de siglas utilizadas, y la edición bilingüe (que presenta a doble página el texto latino y la correspondiente traducción española) de los libros VIII-XIV del Liber spectaculorum.

628 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

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.