Epigrams from Martial
Author : Martial
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Martial
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
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Author : J. P. Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520321111
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
Author : Marcus Valerius Martialis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Martial
ISBN : 9780520042407
Author : Martial
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 1689
Category : Classical literature
ISBN :
Author : Martial
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"In almost 1,600 epigrams, written in styles ranging from the lyrical to the pornographic, Martial (c. 40-c. 103CE) painted a definitive picture of everyday life, society and sexuality in ancient Rome. His influence on English literature, both direct and indirect, has been immense." "From Elizabethan times, writers like Jonson, Herrick, Cowley and Byron translated (or adapted to the London of their day) Martial's portraits of poseurs, prostitutes and philosophers, legacy hunters and social climbers. His urbanity and sharply polished wit helped inspire Pope's heroic couplets and Swift's savage irony. Although Romantics and Victorians tended to react against Martial's obscenity and fulsome flattery of his imperial masters, he always retained a reputation as an underground classic and then became an important model for Ezra Pound. Recent poets, as J. P. Sullivan and A. J. Boyle explain in their Introduction, have also found in his work 'a fully realized, if sometimes sombre world, which alternately fascinates and disquiets'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Martial
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1629
Category :
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Author : Martial
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Epigrams
ISBN :
Author : Marcus Valerius Martialis
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1689
Category :
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Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1440633282
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
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Epigrams
ISBN :