LEADER 02406nam 2200361 450 001 996214862103316 005 20231108214442.0 010 $a0-674-99555-4 035 $a(CKB)3820000000012035 035 $a(NjHacI)993820000000012035 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000012035 100 $a20231108d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEpigrams$hVolume I /$fMartial 210 1$aCambridge (Mass.) :$cHarvard University Press,$d1993. 215 $a1 online resource (viii-425 pages) 330 $aIt was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D. 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life - both public and private - in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and street hawkers, jugglers and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves, and generous hosts are among the diverse characters who populate his verses. Martial is a keen and sharp-tongued observer of Roman Society. His pen brings into crisp relief a wide variety of scenes and events: the theater and public games, life in the countryside, a rich debauchee's banquet, lions in the amphitheater, the eruption of Vesuvius. The epigrams are sometimes obscene, in the tradition of the genre, sometimes warmly affectionate or amusing, and always pointed. Like his contemporary Statius, though, Martial shamelessly flatters his patron Domitian, one of Rome's worst-reputed emperors. D.R. Shackleton Bailey now gives us in three volumes, a reliable modern translation of Martial's often difficult Latin, eliminating many misunderstandings in previous versions. The text is mainly that of his highly praised Teubner edition of 1990. 606 $aEpigrams, Latin 606 $aLatin poetry$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEpigrams, Latin. 615 0$aLatin poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a878 700 $aMartial$0164706 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996214862103316 996 $aEpigrams$93590056 997 $aUNISA