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Upon the death of the Latin poet Martial in about A.D. 104, a
contemporary wrote, "He had as much good nature in his writing as he did
of wit and pungency." He also had a genius for the epigrammatic poem,
which has been characterized as a brief, interesting, usually memorable
and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. In the hands of
Martial, the epigram was raised to a pitch of perfection that has never
been equaled to this day.

The enduring literary interest of
Martial's epigrams arises as much from their literary quality as from
the colorful references to human life that they contain. And readers
(and listeners) today often see them as sharing an eye for the urban
vices of our own times. Martial wrote over 1,500 of these gems, and this
recording contains around 10 percent of the total. They are a very good
cross-section of his work. Due to the adult nature of some of these
poems, those that may be perceived as objectionable have been collected
and are in a section of their own at the end of this production.

1. Martial, A Brief Biography by William Young Sellar (13.5Mb)
2. Book I (8.5Mb)
3. Book II (4.8Mb)
4. Book III (9.2Mb)
5. Book IV (5.4Mb)
6. Book V (6.9Mb)
7. Book VI (3.8Mb)
8. Book VII (3.4Mb)
9. Book VIII (3.5Mb)
10. Book IX (3.1Mb)
11. Book X (5.5Mb)
12. Book XI (7.3Mb)
13. Book XII (7.5Mb)
14. Material Describing Adult Situations (11.3Mb)

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