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- catalog abstract "It 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.".
- catalog alternative "Epigrammata. English".
- catalog contributor b5707547.
- catalog contributor b5707548.
- catalog coverage "Rome Poetry.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "It 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.".
- catalog description "Vol. 1. On the spectacles -- Books I-V. -- Vol. 2. Books VI-X. -- Vol. 3. Books XI-XIV.".
- catalog extent "3 v. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Epigrams.".
- catalog identifier "0674995295 (v. 3)".
- catalog identifier "0674995554 (v. 1) :".
- catalog identifier "0674995562 (v. 2) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Epigrams.".
- catalog isPartOf "Loeb classical library.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Loeb classical library ; LCL 94-LCL 95, LCL 480".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng lat".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Epigrams.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Poetry.".
- catalog subject "878/.0102 20".
- catalog subject "Epigrams, Latin Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Martial Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Occasional verse, Latin Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "PA6502 .B35 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Vol. 1. On the spectacles -- Books I-V. -- Vol. 2. Books VI-X. -- Vol. 3. Books XI-XIV.".
- catalog title "Epigrammata. English".
- catalog title "Epigrams / Martial ; edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.".
- catalog type "Poetry. fast".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".