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In This Volume, Henriksen Offers The First Extensive Commentary On Book 9 Of The Epigrams Of M. Valerius Martialis (ca. Ad 40-104), Who Published Fifteen Books Of Epigrams During The Last Two Decades Of The 1st Century Ad. Firmly Established In A Literary Tradition That Had Begun In Greece More Than Half A Millennium Earlier, Martial's Work Represents The Height Of The Development Of Ancient Epigram. Conscious Of His Own Times And Society, Martial Often Engages Current Genres And His Great Roman Predecessors, Such As Catullus, Vergil, And Ovid, In An Intertextual Dialogue. First Published In Ad 94/95, Book 9 Is The Last Book In The Corpus Of Martial To Have Been Published In The Reign Of The Emperor Domitian. While It Presents The Reader With The Epigrammatist's Characteristic Variety Of Subjects Drawn From Contemporary Roman Society And Everyday Life, It Also Contains A Patently Higher Number Of Poems Focusing On And Eulogizing Domitian Than Any Other Book In The Epigrams. Unlike Those Of Book 8, The Panegyrics In Book 9 Are Mixed With Satirical And Obscene Epigrams, And The Panegyrical Tone Is Intensified. Book 9 Also Provides A Conclusion To The Large Cycle On Domitian's Second

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Author

Christer Henriksén

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199606313

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities