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ISBN: 0198146833 9780198146834 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,
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The Silvae of Statius have been preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript that has long been considered corrupt. In this careful, readable text, Courtney takes the view, held by Klotz alone among editors but strongly supported by recent discoveries of new material, that this manuscript was identical to that seen by Politician. The difficulties are compounded by the author's mannerist style, which most modern editors have often misinterpreted as a defense for corrupt readings. For this text Courtney has surveyed the scholarly literature on the Silvae in its entirety, and has often returned to the judgments of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Latinists in an effort to produce a readable text that does not ignore any difficulties.
Classical Latin literature --- Occasional verse, Latin. --- Laudatory poetry, Latin. --- Laudatory poetry, Latin --- Occasional verse, Latin --- Latin occasional verse --- Latin poetry --- Latin laudatory poetry --- Rome --- History --- -Laudatory poetry, Latin --- -Classical Latin literature --- -Laudatory poetry, Latin. --- Poesia latina. --- Poésie de circonstance latine. --- Poésie élogieuse latine. --- 81-96. --- Rome (Empire). --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy)
ISBN: 0674995554 0674995562 0674995295 9780674995550 9780674995291 9780674995567 Year: 1993 Volume: 94-95, 480 Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard university press,
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It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in A.D. 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life - both public and private - in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and street hawkers, jugglers and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves, and generous hosts are among the diverse characters who populate his verses. Martial is a keen and sharp-tongued observer of Roman Society. His pen brings into crisp relief a wide variety of scenes and events: the theater and public games, life in the countryside, a rich debauchee's banquet, lions in the amphitheater, the eruption of Vesuvius. The epigrams are sometimes obscene, in the tradition of the genre, sometimes warmly affectionate or amusing, and always pointed. Like his contemporary Statius, though, Martial shamelessly flatters his patron Domitian, one of Rome's worst-reputed emperors. D.R. Shackleton Bailey now gives us in three volumes, a reliable modern translation of Martial's often difficult Latin, eliminating many misunderstandings in previous versions. The text is mainly that of his highly praised Teubner edition of 1990.
Epigrams, Latin --- Translations into English. --- Martial --- Rome --- Poetry. --- -Translations into English --- -Latin epigrams --- Translations into English --- Martialis, Marcus Valerius --- Martialis, M. Valerius --- Mart︠s︡ial, Valeriĭ --- Marcial, Marco Valerio --- Marziale, Marco Valerio --- Marcjalis, Marek Waleriusz --- Martialis --- Marziale --- מארטיאליס --- Occasional verse, Latin --- Epigrammes latines --- Poésie de circonstance latine --- Traductions anglaises --- Traduction en anglais --- Poésie de circonstance latine --- Durand, Martial --- Martial. --- Epigrams, Latin - Translations into English --- Epigrams, Latin. --- Latin poetry --- History and criticism.
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