Selected Epigrams - Couverture souple

Martial

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299301745 ISBN 13 : 9780299301743

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2014

Synopsis

This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of patrons and clients, doctors and lawyers, prostitutes, slaves, and social climbers in ancient Rome. The selections cover nearly a third of Martial's 1,500 or so epigrams, augmented by an introduction by historian Marc Kleijwegt and informative notes on literary allusion and wordplay by translator Susan McLean.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (ca. 40-104 CE), made his way to Rome from Iberia (now Spain) and won renown across the Empire for his humorous epigrams. Susan McLean is a professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. She won the 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize for a collection of her own poems, The Whetstone Misses the Knife, and in 2009 her collection The Best Disguise won the Richard Wilbur Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299301745
• ISBN 13: 9780299301743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 189
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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