Marcus Valerius Martialis Comments

Fabrizio Frosini 19 October 2018

Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis (38/41? AD – 102/104? AD) was a Roman poet from Spain, considered the creator of the modern epigram. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets, in twelve books published between AD 86 and 103. In them he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing.

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