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M. Valerii Martialis Liber spectaculorum / [M. Valerius Martial] ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Kathleen M. Coleman.

Title
M. Valerii Martialis Liber spectaculorum / [M. Valerius Martial] ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Kathleen M. Coleman.
Author
Martial
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
Coleman, K. M. (Kathleen M.)
Description
lxxxvi, 322 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Liber de spectaculis. English & Latin
Alternative Title
  • Liber de spectaculis.
  • Liber spectaculorum
Subject
  • Martial. Liber de spectaculis
  • Epigram
Genre/Form
  • Epigrams, Latin.
  • Epigrams, Latin – Translations into English.
  • Epigrams.
  • Bilingual books.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-303) and indexes.
Language (note)
  • Latin text and English translation; notes and commentary in English.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0198144814 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006019810
OCLC
  • 70131151
  • SCSB-11805380
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library