A Martial Reader: Selections from the Epigrams (Bc Latin Readers)

by Marcus Valerius Martialis, Craig Williams

Latin selections from Roman poet Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), with vocabulary and grammar notes. Includes an introduction, two maps, full vocabulary, and selected bibliography.

185 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 103

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.