| #1164787 in Books | 1993-01-01 | 1993-01-31 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | .84 x4.53 x6.66l,.61 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By bruce kirk|Thank You!|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A basic for anyone's library|By V. Williamson|This is one of the three books of Martial's epigrams. It is a basic for anyone's Latin library. The Latin is difficult, unlike Caesar's, but worth the battle.|21 of 24 people found the following||The publication of a new edition in the Loeb Classical Library of the poems of Martial--Latin verse and English prose face à face...offers an occasion for thinking about the way Martial's presence shows itself in English poetry and about the poet in per
Written to celebrate the 80 CE opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial's first book of poems, "On the Spectacles," tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves and generous hosts populate his witty verses. We glimpse here the theater, public games, lif...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Epigrams, Volume I: Spectacles, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library) | Martial. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
