Martial

by Peter Howell

Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) was a Spanish writer who lived in Rome in the second half of the first century AD. He wrote only in the genre of epigram, invented by the Greeks, which he chose because of his dislike of all that was pretentious and escapist in contemporary literature, where stale mythological topics were regarded as both 'elevated' and, in times of political danger, safe. His own boundless interest in the life he saw around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853997021
• ISBN13: 9781853997020
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"