martial

Alors qu'il donne un cours, Jacques Gaubert s'effondre et décède. Empoisonnement aux diatomées, décrète le médecin légiste. Ironie du sort, c'est préc

Martial's name is a byword for caustic and often obscene wit. The fiercest Roman satirist after Juvenal, he was also a poet with a more reflective nat

This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and lo

A representative selection of the poems of the first-century AD epigrammatist Martial is presented in this edition, together with a very full introduc

Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, “On the

In his epigrams, Martial (c. 40-c. 103 CE) is a keen, sharp-tongued observer of Roman scenes and events, including the new Colosseum, country life, a