Martial's Epigrams: A Selection

By Marcus Valerius Martialis and Frederick Apthorp Paley

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670020397
• ISBN13: 9780670020393
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 4.8"

Customer Reviews

Bawdy, backbiting and hilarious

Translations of Martial's bawdy and bitchy epigrams, as pertinent today as they were in the first century AD, when he wrote them.