Martial
40 CE – 104 CE · aged 64
1st-century Latin poet from Hispania
- Born
- 40 CE · Augusta Bilbilis
- Died
- 104 CE · Augusta Bilbilis
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- 40 CEBornBorn in Augusta Bilbilis
- 104 CEDiedDied in Augusta Bilbilis
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Biography
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Bilbilis, 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. 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.
Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist.
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