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[Biography] Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet who brought the Latin epigram to perfection and provided in it a picture of Roman society during the early empire. Martial was born in a Roman colony in Spain.
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Juvenal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis , known in English as Juvenal , was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires . The details of the author's life are unclear, al...
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(born c. AD 38/41, Bilbilis, Hispania — died c. 103) Roman poet. 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.
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Pliny the Younger (ca. 61-ca. 113) was a Roman author and administrator. He left a collection of letters which offers intimate glimpses into public and private life during the Roman Empire. ... Detailed biography at livius.org ... Martial (Ancient Roman poet)
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Lucretius, the Roman poet and philosopher, became one of the giants of the Enlightenment. He was the principle and best source for Greek Atomism; a scientific philosophy which widely influenced the critical thinking of that age including the re-emergence of science.
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The one contemporary who ever mentions Juvenal is Martial, who claims to be his friend, calls him eloquent, and describes him as living the life of a poor dependent cadging from rich men. There are a few biographies of him, apparently composed long ... For a definition of "Juvenal (Roman poet)", visit Merriam-Webster.
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Virgil’s fame as a poet rests on the three acknowledged works of his early and mature manhood—the pastoral poems or Eclogues, ... The ambitious saying, not to apply to it a harsher epithet, attribute by his biography to Lucan, ... Martial (xiv. 185) writes of a Culex as the undoubted work of a Culex as the undoubted work of Virgil.
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His own writings afford much the fullest and most trust-worthy materials for his biography and for the estimate of his character. But a few facts, in addition to those recorded by the poet himself, ... and elsewhere he recalls with pride the old martial glory of the race amongst whom his first years were passed (Ode, i.
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