id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2497 Martial - Wikipedia .html text/html 4152 554 69 Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial /ˈmɑːrʃəl/) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from 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. He was educated in Hispania, a part of the Roman Empire which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers, including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, Lucan and Quintilian, and Martial's contemporaries Licinianus of Bilbilis, Decianus of Emerita and Canius of Gades. Martial's Epigrams[edit] "Modifying Martial in Nineteenth-Century Britain." In Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin. Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire: Martial's Forgotten Rivals. Martial's Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram. Martial Blog—translations from much of the first three books of Epigrams ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2497.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2497.txt