Epigrams Spectacles

Name: Epigrams Spectacles
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ISBN: 9780674995550

ISBN-10: 0674995554

ISBN-13: 9780674995550

Edition: 1993

Authors: Martial, D. R. Shackleton Bailey

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Written to celebrate the A.D. 80 opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial's first book of poems, "On the Spectacles," tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves and generous hosts populate his witty verses. We glimpse here the theater, public games, life in the countryside, banquets, lions in the amphitheater, the eruption of Vesuvius. Martial's epigrams are sometimes obscene, sometimes affectionate and amusing, and always pointed. Like his contemporary Statius, though,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 4.45" wide x 6.42" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University.



Introduction


Abbreviations


Epigrams On The Spectacles


Book I


Book II


Book III


Book IV


Book V