Martial's Epigrams: A Selection

Name: Bawdy, backbiting and hilarious
Item: Epigrams
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By Marcus Valerius Martialis and Frederick Apthorp Paley

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One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0670020397

ISBN13:9780670020393

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Viking Pr

Length:205 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:7.5" x 0.8" x 4.8"

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Bawdy, backbiting and hilarious

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago

Translations of Martial's bawdy and bitchy epigrams, as pertinent today as they were in the first century AD, when he wrote them.

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