epigrams, latin

A comprehensive analysis of the works of Marcus Valerius Martialis, a Latin poet best known for his twelve books of epigrams published in Rome between AD 86 and 103.

A collection of epigrams in which Martial reflects on the follies and vices of his time.

Presents a collection of poems, in Latin with English translation, originally written to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D. 80 that reveals the Roman public and private lives of orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and beggars, the elite of Rome as well as slaves.