| Description |
1 online resource (lxxxvi, 322 pages : illustrations, map) |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- List of Illustrationsx -- List of Tablesxii -- Abbreviationsxiii -- Editions, Translations, and Commentaries Citedxvi -- General Introductionxix -- 1.The Numbering in this Editionxx -- 2.The Transmission of the Textxxi -- 3.The Titlexxv -- 4.Headingsxxix -- 5.Scope and Characteristics of the Transmitted Collectionxxxiii -- 6.The Identity of Caesarxlv -- 7.The Flavian Amphitheatrelxv -- 8.Spectacle and the Imperial Imagelxxii -- 9.Monuments and Occasions as a Theme in Epigramlxxvi -- 10.Spectacle and Imperial Panegyric in Martials Oeuvrelxxix -- 11.The Author and his Booklxxxi -- 12.A Humanist Legacy: the Cornu copiae of Niccol Perottilxxxv -- Siglalxxxvii -- Text, Translation, and Commentary1 -- Appendix: The Source of the Nile263 -- Concordances267 -- Bibliography271 -- Index000 j5201 "This is the first full-scale edition of the surviving epigrams from the so-called Liber spectaculorum by Martial, a thematically unified collection celebrating highlights from games held under imperial sponsorship in Flavian Rome. The poems have been preserved in various combinations in six medieval florilegia, and are augmented by two from the Florilegium Gallicum that were first attributed to the collection in the sixteenth century." "Each epigram is accompanied by an apparatus criticus, an English translation, an introduction, and a detailed commentary discussing matters of linguistic, literary, and historical interest. To elucidate these allusive poems, a wide range of evidence is adduced from epigraphy and art as well as works of literature |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [277] -303 |
| Notes |
Latin text and English translation; notes and commentary in English |
| Subject |
Martial. Liber de spectaculis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coleman, K. M. (Kathleen M.)
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| ISBN |
9780191518287 (electronic bk.) |
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019151828X (electronic bk.) |
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