Martial
Sign in to saveMarcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania (modern Spain), 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 poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances and romanticises his provincial upbringing. A total of 1,561 epigrams written by him have survived, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.
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Martial was a Roman poet from Spain (AD 38-104) best known for twelve books of sharp, witty epigrams that satirized city life and the behavior of people he knew, while nostalgically portraying his provincial hometown. His surviving works—over 1,500 poems written mostly in the late first century AD—offer a vivid window into daily life and scandals during the Roman Empire and established the literary form of the satirical epigram that influenced writers for centuries to come.
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- Born
- 1891
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 41
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- La philosophie transcendantale de Salomon Maīmon
- Nouvelles réflexions sur la preuve ontologique de Descartes
- Berkeley
- Études sur Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche et Leibniz
- Étendue et psychologie chez Malebranche
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11 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Life in Rome
- Martial and his patrons
- Martial's character
- Martial's ''Epigrams''
- Reception
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Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania (modern Spain), 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 poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances and romanticises his provincial upbringing. A total of 1,561 epigrams written by him have survived, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.
Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist.