In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the
epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a …

This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an
expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book …

Ich zitiere die Epigramme Martials nach der Bibliotheca Oxoniensis-Ausgabe von Lindsay
[1929]; in Abschnitt 3.1 des vierten Kapitels lege ich dar, warum ich nicht eine der beiden …

The post-Domitianic literary record differs markedly from that of the emperor's reign.
Although portrayed as a victorious general, defender of Roman morality and a great builder …

This small volume is aimed at two constituencies: the undergraduate coming to Martial for
the first time, and the general reader with an interest in the epigrammatist and in Latin poetry …

In this dissertation, I examine the role of smell in Latin literature. Looking specifically at
Roman comedy, epic, and epigram, I demonstrate both how smells function as literary …

The primary obscenity futuo ('the male part in sexual intercourse with a woman') is
unsurprisingly rare in literary Latin. Apart from a single occurrence in Horace's Satires (1.2 …

This is the first in-depth exploration of the extent and significance of Ovidian intertexts in
Statius' Thebaid, with particular emphasis on the interplay between poetics, politics, and …

Moving beyond the methodological issues of a literary-based reassessment of the reign of
the last Flavian emperor, this article re-reads the principate of Domitian in light of fresh …

This paper aims to provide an analysis of the metatextual function of one of the most well-
known elements of Martial's Epigrams, the 'lion and hare'cycle from Book 1. This cycle, in …