Research Catalog
Epigrams
- Title
- Epigrams / Martial ; edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.
- Author
- Martial.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 3 | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR PA6156 .M37 v. 3 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
| v. 3 | Text | Request in advance | JFB 07-21 v. 3 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR PA6156 .M37 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
| v. 2 | Text | Request in advance | JFB 07-21 v. 2 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR PA6156 .M37 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
| v. 1 | Text | Request in advance | JFB 07-21 v. 1 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Shackleton Bailey, D. R. (David Roy), 1917-2005.
- Description
- 3 volumes; 17 cm
- Summary
- It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D. 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life - both public and private - in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and street hawkers, jugglers and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves, and generous hosts are among the diverse characters who populate his verses. Martial is a keen and sharp-tongued observer of Roman Society. His pen brings into crisp relief a wide variety of scenes and events: the theater and public games, life in the countryside, a rich debauchee's banquet, lions in the amphitheater, the eruption of Vesuvius. The epigrams are sometimes obscene, in the tradition of the genre, sometimes warmly affectionate or amusing, and always pointed. Like his contemporary Statius, though, Martial shamelessly flatters his patron Domitian, one of Rome's worst-reputed emperors. D.R. Shackleton Bailey now gives us in three volumes, a reliable modern translation of Martial's often difficult Latin, eliminating many misunderstandings in previous versions. The text is mainly that of his highly praised Teubner edition of 1990.
- Series Statement
- Loeb classical library ; LCL 94-LCL 95, LCL 480
- Uniform Title
- Epigrammata. English & Latin
- Loeb classical library ; 94-95, 480.
- Alternative Title
- Epigrammata.
- Spectacles
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Note
- Translation of: Epigrammata.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Latin and English on opposite pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Contents
- [Volume] I. On the spectacles ; Books I-V -- [volume] II. Books VI-X -- [volume] III. Books XI-XIV.
- Call Number
- PA6156
- ISBN
- 9780674995550
- 0674995554
- 9780674995567
- 0674995562
- 9780674995291
- 0674995295
- LCCN
- 92008234
- OCLC
- 25547103
- Author
- Martial.
- Title
- Epigrams / Martial ; edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Loeb classical library ; LCL 94-LCL 95, LCL 480Loeb classical library ; 94-95, 480.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language
- Latin and English on opposite pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Added Author
- Shackleton Bailey, D. R. (David Roy), 1917-2005.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Martial. Epigrammata. English. Epigrams. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993 (OCoLC)646882520
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR PA6156 .M37JFB 07-21