Buy this book on-line Fitts, Dudley : Sixty Poems Of Martial In TranslationHarcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1967
127pp. Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) (38-103 AD) was born in a Roman colony in what is now Spain, Martial went to Rome as a young man. There he associated with such figures as Seneca, Lucan, and Juvenal and enjoyed the patronage of the emperors Titus and Domitian. His early poetry, some marred by gross adulation of Titus, was undistinguished. He is renowned for his 12 books of epigrams (86–102?), a form he virtually created, 8vo, Fine in Very Good+ DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Fitts, Dudley : Sixty Poems Of Martial In Translation. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, used books, incunabula, first editions and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |