The Loeb Classical Library: Epigrams, Volume II : Books 6–10

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The Loeb Classical Library: Epigrams, Volume II : Books 6–10It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, On the Spectacles. Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammists twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman lifeboth public and privatein vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers,

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narrative poetry

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