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Roman epigrams, however, were often more satirical than Greek ones, and at times used obscene language for effect. Latin epigrams could be composed as inscriptions or graffiti, such as this one from Pompeii, which exists in several versions and seems from its inexact meter to have been composed by a less educated person. Its content makes it ...
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial / ˈ m ɑːr ʃ əl /; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian [1] poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
They include eight "love" or "amatory" epigrams (one commemorative, six erotic, and one funerary); [2] dedicatory epigrams; sepulchral epigrams, and dedicatory or descriptive epigrams. Typical of ancient Greek literature (and regardless of their Platonic authenticity), the epigrams refer to historical personalities, places in and around ancient ...
He is named as the author of 35 epigrams in the Greek Anthology, with another 96 being attributed only to "Antipater" but not specifying which Antipater is meant. [2] Antipater is the most copious and perhaps the most interesting of the Augustan epigrammatists. [citation needed] There are many allusions in his work to contemporary history:
[b] Of these six uncertain poems, two (AP 7.190 and 7.232) are considered possibly or probably by Anyte; the others are generally doubted. [ c ] [ 10 ] It is likely that Anyte compiled a book of her poetry from her epigrams [ 11 ] – she may have been the first to do so. [ 12 ]
Marble bust of Nossis by Francesco Jerace. Nossis (Ancient Greek: Νοσσίς, fl. c. 300 BC) was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia.Probably well-educated and from a noble family, Nossis was influenced by and claimed to rival Sappho.
Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) lived in the waning days of the Roman Republic, just before the Imperial era that began with Augustus.Catullus is the chief representative of a school of poets known as the poetae novi or neoteroi, both terms meaning "the new poets".
Leonidas [a] of Alexandria (/ l i ˈ ɒ n ɪ d ə s,-d æ s /; Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας; Latin: Leonidas Alexandrinus; fl. 1st century AD) was a Greek epigrammatist active at Rome during the reigns of Nero and Vespasian. Some of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and in one he lays claim to having invented the isopsephic ...