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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195155319
ISBN-139780195155310
eBay Product ID (ePID)2376338
Product Key Features
Book TitleMartial's Epigrams Book Two
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicForm / Anecdotes & Quotations, Ancient & Classical
GenreLiterary Criticism, Humor
AuthorCraig A. Williams
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length6.4 in
Item Width9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-004244
Reviews...readers new to Martial will no doubt find the book a useful tool...The translations are very readable and [Williams] has done a good job in reflecting the tone of Martial's Latin., "An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a useful advance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation from which to mount further investigations."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams has created a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martial was doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted and needed in a commentary."--New England Classical Journal "What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilled and diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will be indispensable."--Classical World, "An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a usefuladvance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation fromwhich to mount further investigations."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a useful advance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation from which to mount further investigations."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review"The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams has created a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martial was doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted and needed in a commentary."--New England Classical Journal"What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilled and diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will be indispensable."--Classical World, "The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams has created a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martial was doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted and needed in a commentary."--New England Classical Journal, "An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a useful advance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation from which to mount further investigations."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilledand diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will beindispensable."--Classical World, "What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilled and diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will be indispensable."--Classical World, "An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a useful advance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation from which to mount further investigations."-- Bryn Mawr Classical Review "The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams has created a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martial was doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted and needed in a commentary."-- New England Classical Journal "What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilled and diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will be indispensable."-- Classical World, "The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams hascreated a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martialwas doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted andneeded in a commentary."--New England Classical Journal, "An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a useful advance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation from which to mount further investigations."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review"The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams has created a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martial was doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted and needed in a commentary."--New England Classical Journal"What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilled and diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will be indispensable."--Classical World"An enjoyable book which engages the attention throughout, marks a useful advance in the study of Martial's works, and establishes a firm foundation from which to mount further investigations."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review"The commentary is wonderfully focused and manageable.... Williams has created a very fine tool for perceiving and appreciating much of what Martial was doing in the poems.... Williams gives the reader just what is wanted and needed in a commentary."--New England Classical Journal"What Williams has to offer is solid and reliable, the work of a skilled and diligent philologist, and for future studies of the genre his book will be indispensable."--Classical World
Volume NumberBk. 2
Dewey Decimal878.0102
Table Of ContentAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Martial's Life and Works2. Epigram before Martial3. Characteristics of Martial's Epigrams3.1. Themes3.2. Characters3.3. Formal Features: Point, Bipartite Structure, Length, and Meter3.4. Book Structure4. Nachleben and Reception5. Manuscript TraditionText, Translation, and CommentaryBibliographyIndices
SynopsisThis 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., This edition provides an English translation of and detailed commentary on the second book of epigrams published by the Latin poet Marcus Valerius Martialis. 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.
LC Classification NumberPA6502.W55 2003
