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Marcus Valerius Martialis

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born

Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain)

gender

male

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Poetry

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Catullus, Pedo, and Marsus

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Born: March 1, 40 AD, in Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain); Died: ca. 102 AD--Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. Considered the creator of the modern epigram, Martial wrote a total of 1,561 - 1,235 of which are in elegiac couplets.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 196 ratings · 17 reviews · 26 distinct works

	Epigrams by Marcus Valerius Martialis, James Michie (Translator), Shadi Bartsch (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1902 — 52 editions	My rating:
	Martial's Epigrams: A Selection by Marcus Valerius Martialis, Garry Wills (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1942 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Epigrams, I, Spectacles, Books 1-5 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Sixty Poems of Martial, in Translation by Marcus Valerius Martialis (Author), Dudley Fitts (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1967	My rating:
	Martial's Epigrams Book Two by Marcus Valerius Martialis, Craig Arthur Williams 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Epigrams: With an English Translation by Marcus Valerius Martialis, Walter Charles Alan Ker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Toutes Les Epigrammes de Martial En Latin, Part 2: Et En Francois (1655) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sex en Eros bij Martialis : 300 epigrammen by Marcus Valerius Martialis, E.B. de Bruyn (Vertaler) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	Selected Epigrams of Martial 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Epigrams. Edited with Introd., Notes, and Appendices by H.M. Stephenson by Marcus Valerius Martialis, Henry Major Stephenson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating: