Christer Henriksén

A Commentary on Martial, Epigrams Book 9

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, characteristics, structure, and themes of Book 9, followed by a detailed commentary on each of the 105 poems, which places them in their literary, social, and historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9780199606313
• ISBN-10: 0199606315
• Artikelnr.: 35996310

Autorenporträt

Christer Henriksén is Senior Lecturer in Latin at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, and mainly works on various aspects of Martial's poetry, Roman verse inscriptions, and also on the development of dactylic verse in Greece and Rome and its use by different poets.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: The date of Book 9
2: General characteristics and metres
3: Themes and motifs in Book 9
4: The structure of Book 9
5: Some notes on the tradition of the manuscripts and on the text of Book 9
6: A note on the use of this commentary
Text and Commentary
Bibliography
Indices
Index of proper names
Temples and buildings
Latin words and expressions
General index