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
virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's
culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary
scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves
more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful
tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman
poet's world-and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late
first century CE-when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social
life of the Roman elite-Martial published his poems in a series of
books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to
read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the
paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the
book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes
on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in
shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers,
prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams
itself-in both Latin and English versions-Fitzgerald's study will
delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates
an ingenious witticism.
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