Marcus valerius martialis biography of mahatma
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Bio: Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and...
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from present-day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between 86 and C.E. Martial is considered the father of the modern epigram; his short, witty poems—1, in all—provide brief, vivid, and often extraordinarly humorous portraits of members of the Roman populace.
Martial wrote a number of epigrams for emperors, generals, heroes, among others; but what perhaps marks him as the most innovative epigrammatist in ancient history is that he also, frequently, took ordinary people for his subjects.
Martial wrote epigrams on slaves and senators alike, and his work surveys, and satirizes, every level of the Roman social strata. Martial's epigrams, with their brevity and wit, have often fared better in translation and over the centuries than dense epics and lyrics of his fellow ancient Romans.
He remains one of the most enduringly popular of all Latin poets, and he is credited