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Epigrams. Book two / Martial ; edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Craig A. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martial.
- Standardized Title:
- Epigrammata. Liber 2. English & Latin
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epigrams, Latin--Translations into English.
- Epigrams, Latin.
- Martial--Translations into English.
- Martial.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This edition provides an English translation of and detailed commentary on the second book of epigrams published by the Latin poet Marcus Valerius Martialis. This new commentary carefully illuminates the allusions to people, places, things, and cultural practices of late first-century Rome that pervade Martial's poetry.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Martial's Life and Works; 2. Epigram before Martial; 3. Characteristics of Martial's Epigrams; 3.1. Themes; 3.2. Characters; 3.3. Formal Features: Point, Bipartite Structure, Length, and Meter; 3.4. Book Structure; 4. Nachleben and Reception; 5. Manuscript Tradition; TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDICES; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028866-3
- 0-19-046602-2
- 1-280-50233-9
- 0-19-534820-6
- 1-4337-0015-8
- OCLC:
- 437175155
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