Henriksén offers the first extensive commentary on Book 9 of the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis. The book consists of an introduction discussing the date, c

One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern

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