Martial: Epigrams, vol. III (Books 11-14)
- Publisher HARVARD
- Author/s Martial
- ISBN13 9780674995291
- ISBN10 0674995295
Martial: Epigrams, vol. III (Books 11-14)
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.
- Publisher HARVARD
- Author/s Martial
- ISBN13 9780674995291
- ISBN10 0674995295