Marcus valerius martialis iihs

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Marcus valerius martialis iihs

For other uses including other ancient Romans with the cognomen, see Martialis (disambiguation).

For other uses, see Martial (disambiguation).

1st-century Latin poet from Hispania

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between and AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and , during the reigns of the emperorsDomitian, Nerva and Trajan.

In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1, epigrams, of which 1, are in elegiac couplets.

Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist,^[1][2] and is considered the creator of the modern epigram.

Early life

Knowledge of his origins and early life are derived almost entirely from his works, which can be more or less dated