Rome's gossip columnist: when the first-century poet Martial turned his stylus on you, you got the point.(Marcus Valerius Martialis)(Critical essay)

From: American Scholar | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Martial--Marcus Valerius Martialis, c.40-c.102 C.E.--was a provincial, though from a province, Spain, rich in grains and in human talent. He came to the imperial center, Rome, to get fame and fortune by his art of ridicule. He won the fame, at least, though he had at times to crawl for it--as did his fellow Spaniards, Seneca, Lucan, and Quintilian. He crawled a bit more nimbly than they, since Nero arranged the deaths of Seneca and Lucan. Martin got to Rome just as Nero's reign was ending, but he had to live through a long reign of the repressive emperor Domitian (81-96 C.E.) He ...

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