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Author : Martial
Release : 1969
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Epigrams from Martial by : Martial
Download or read book Epigrams from Martial written by Martial. This book was released on 1969. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garry Wills
Release : 2008-10-30
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 282/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Martial's Epigrams by : Garry Wills
Download or read book Martial's Epigrams written by Garry Wills. This book was released on 2008-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice the cleverly constructed effects of Martial's short and shapely thrusts. Martial's Epigrams "bespeaks a great scholar at play" (The New York Times Book Review), makes for addictive reading, and is a perfect, if naughty, gift. Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
Author : Martial
Release : 1908
Genre : Epigrams
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Book Synopsis Selected Epigrams of Martial by : Martial
Download or read book Selected Epigrams of Martial written by Martial. This book was released on 1908. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Fitzgerald
Release : 2021-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 558/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Martial by : William Fitzgerald
Download or read book Martial written by William Fitzgerald. This book was released on 2021-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman poet’s world—and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late first century CE—when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social life of the Roman elite—Martial published his poems in a series of books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in both Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s study will delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates an ingenious witticism.
Author : Christer Henriksén
Release : 2012-08-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 315/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Commentary on Martial, Epigrams Book 9 by : Christer Henriksén
Download or read book A Commentary on Martial, Epigrams Book 9 written by Christer Henriksén. This book was released on 2012-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henriksén offers the first extensive commentary on Book 9 of the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis. The book consists of an introduction discussing the date, characteristics, structure, and themes of Book 9, followed by a detailed commentary on each of the 105 poems, which places them in their literary, social, and historical context.
