Martial's Epigrams: A Selection

by Marcus Valerius Martialis and Frederick Apthorp Paley

Book Overview

This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670020397
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 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.