Martial's Epigrams Book Two

✍ Scribed by Craig A. Williams

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edition provides an English translation of and detailed commentary on the second book of epigrams published by the Latin poet Marcus Valerius Martialis. The past ten years have seen a resurgence of interest in Martial's writings. But contemporary readers are in particular need of assistance when approaching these epigrams, and until now there has been no modern commentary dedicated to Book II. This new commentary carefully illuminates the allusions to people, places, things, and cultural practices of late first-century Rome that pervade Martial's poetry. It analyzes the epigrammatist's poems as literary creations, treating such topics as the structure of the individual poems and of the book as a whole, and the influence of earlier texts on Martial's language and themes.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 10
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
1. Martial’s Life and Works......Page 16
2. Epigram before Martial......Page 18
3. Characteristics of Martial’s Epigrams......Page 19
3.1. Themes......Page 20
3.2. Characters......Page 21
3.3. Formal Features: Point, Bipartite Structure, Length, and Meter......Page 22
3.4. Book Structure......Page 23
4. Nachleben and Reception......Page 24
5. Manuscript Tradition......Page 25
TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY......Page 28
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 296
C......Page 310
G......Page 311
M......Page 312
R......Page 313
Z......Page 314