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| #1839724 in Books | Garry Wills | 2009-10-27 | 2009-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.10 x.60 x5.00l,.44 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | Martial s Epigrams||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Funny, Naughty Stuff!|By Kleiber1|This Roman author and poet had a wicked sense of humor as he deflated many of the puffed-up persons and personality types of his day. If you don't mind a few dirty jokes done with wit and style, you'll enjoy this,.|19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| Worth Reading But ....|By David Ke||"This collection bespeaks a great scholar at play. Recreational classicists should feel flattered that [Wills] wants them to watch."|--The New York Times Book ||"Funny, wicked, and fresh, these epigrams . . . will give the reader plenty of smile
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 ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice the cleverly constructed effects of Martial's short and shapely thrusts. Martial's Epigrams "bespeaks a great scholar at play" (The New York Times Book Review), m...
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