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This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of patrons and clients, doctors and lawyers, prostitutes, slaves, and social climbers in ancient Rome.

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    A Paperback by Martial Martial, Susan McLean

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      Publisher MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Published 12/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780299301743
      978-0299301743
      ISBN-10 0299301745
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction

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      Book Synopsis
      This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of patrons and clients, doctors and lawyers, prostitutes, slaves, and social climbers in ancient Rome.

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