Epigrams
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'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.'The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the pretensions, addictions, and cruelties of its inhabitants with perfect comic timing and killer punchlines. Social climbers and sex-offenders, rogue traders and two-faced preachers - all are subject to his forensic annihilations and often foul-mouthed verses. Packed with incident and detail, Martial's epigrams bring Rome vividly tolife in all its variety; biting satire rubs alongside tender friendship,…
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Weitere Autoren: Nisbet, Gideon (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-103456-5
- EAN: 9780191034565
- Produktnummer: 29379434
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch / Latein
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'577 KB
Über den Autor
Gideon Nisbet has taught and researched the classical world and its reception at the Universities of Glasgow, Reading, Warwick, and Oxford, and is an expert in ancient epigram. His publications includes Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire: Martial's Forgotten Rivals (OUP, 2003), Greek Epigram in Reception (OUP, 2013) and the Greece and Rome New Survey, Epigram (CUP, 2010).
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