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Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ) (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD), was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve b...
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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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Roman poet who brought the Latin epigram to perfection and provided in it a picture of Roman society during the early empire that is remarkable both for its completeness and for its accurate portrayal of human foibles. ... Life and career ... Martial was born in a Roman colony in Spain along the Salo River.
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Martial’s first book, On the Spectacles (ad 80), contained 33 undistinguished epigrams celebrating the shows held in the Colosseum, an amphitheatre in the city begun by Vespasian and completed by Titus in 79; these poems are scarcely improved by their gross adulation of the ... On the Spectacles (work by Martial)
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Martial: (AD 40104?). The Roman poet Martial was a master of the epigrama short, poetic statement that often has a moral. One of his best known is Live for today; tomorrow is too late. His poems give a vivid picture of life during the early Roman Empire. ... ; Martial is depicted in an English aquatint engraving from 1814.
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The old Roman poet Martial, or 'Mar-tee-al' - he was a Spaniard who went to Rome in his 20s in about 64 AD, and spent the rest of his life in Rome - well, Martial was once chided by a friend for going to the Coliseum and watching lions fight and devour slaves. ... The pros and cons are about evenly split. The fight between...
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Roman Society, Roman Life ... The entire concept of Roman life seemed to center around the city, be this the city of Rome itself or any other town. The countryside was a nice place to retire to for a while in order to stay in touch with nature.
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What is the homophone for martial? ... Animal Life ... Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)
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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, ... These twelve books bring Martial's ordinary mode of life between the age of forty-five and sixty very fully before us.
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