Martial, Epigrams / Loeb Classical Library 94/95/480
Loeb Classical Library 94/95/480, Martial, Epigrams. Translated by Waler C. A. Ker (vol. 1) and D. R. Shackleton Bailey (vol. 2 - 3).
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- Auteur : Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis).
- Volumes : 3 volumes.
- Binding / Reliure : original red titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
- Etat / Condition : good condition, signs of use to dust jacket, yellow highlighting to many pages/ bon état, couverture avec des traces d'usure, une bonne partie des pages avec marqueurs en jaune.
- Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
- Pages : XX, 491; 419; 390 pp.
- Editeur : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
- Date : 1990 - 1993.
Latin and English on opposite pages. Bilingue latin et anglais.
Written to celebrate the 80 CE opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial’s first book of poems, “On the Spectacles,” tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist’s twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves and generous hosts populate his witty verses. We glimpse here the theater, public games, life in the countryside, banquets, lions in the amphitheater, the eruption of Vesuvius. Martial’s epigrams are sometimes obscene, sometimes affectionate and amusing, and always pointed. Like his contemporary Statius, though, Martial shamelessly flatters his patron Domitian, one of Rome’s worst-reputed emperors.
Shackleton Bailey’s translation of Martial’s often difficult Latin eliminates many misunderstandings in previous versions. The text is mainly that of his highly praised Teubner edition of 1990 (“greatly superior to its predecessors,” R. G. M. Nisbet wrote in Classical Review).
These volumes replace the earlier Loeb edition with translation by Walter C. A. Ker (1919).
The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies. - veuillez jeter un coup d'oeil à nos livres
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| Condition | Used - Good |
|---|---|
| Language | United Kingdom |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Publicaton Date | 1 Jan 1990 |
| Year | 1990 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Martialis Valerius |
| Editor | Harvard University Press |
| First edition | No |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Hardcover |
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