M. Valerii Martialis Liber spectaculorum
by Martial
"This is the first full-scale edition of the surviving epigrams from the so-called Liber spectaculorum by Martial, a thematically unified collection celebrating highlights from games held under imperial sponsorship in Flavian Rome. The poems have been preserved in various combinations in six medieval florilegia, and are augmented by two from the Florilegium Gallicum that were first attributed to the collection in the sixteenth century." "Each epigram is accompanied by an apparatus criticus, an …
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- Full title :M. Valerii Martialis Liber spectaculorum / [M. Valerius Martial] ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Kathleen M. Coleman.
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"This is the first full-scale edition of the surviving epigrams from the so-called Liber spectaculorum by Martial, a thematically unified collection celebrating highlights from games held under imperial sponsorship in Flavian Rome. The poems have been preserved in various combinations in six medieval florilegia, and are augmented by two from the Florilegium Gallicum that were first attributed to the collection in the sixteenth century." "Each epigram is accompanied by an apparatus criticus, an English translation, an introduction, and a detailed commentary discussing matters of linguistic, literary, and historical interest. To elucidate these allusive poems, a wide range of evidence is adduced from epigraphy and art as well as works of literature."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:lxxxvi, 322 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0198144814, 9780198144816
- oclc:ocm70131151
- LC Classification:PA6501
- Dewey Decimal:878
Table of Contents
The numbering in this edition -- The transmission of the text -- Title -- Headings -- Scope and characteristics of the transmitted collection -- The identity of 'Caesar' -- The flavian amphitheatre -- Spectacle and the imperial image -- Monuments and occasions as a theme in epigram -- spectacle and imperial panegyric in martial's oeuvre -- The author and his book -- A humanist legacy: the Cornu copiae of Niccolo Perotti.
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