by Marcial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788424925499
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Epigramas I is a work by the author Marcial, published by Biblioteca Básica Gredos in 2001. This hardcover book is the first volume of the Epigramas collection, which presents a selection of short and satirical poems by the Roman author. The work is written in Spanish and offers a general introduction to the life and work of Marcial, as well as explanatory notes to facilitate the understanding of the poems.
Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania, 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. In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances and romanticises his provincial upbringing. A total of 1,561 epigrams written by him have survived, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.
