Download or read book Martial s Wit and Humor written by Virginia Judith Craig and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Martial s Wit and Humor written by Virginia Judith Craig and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Martial s Wit and Humor Classic Reprint written by Virginia Judith Craig and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Martial's Wit and Humor The Latin poet, Martial, is responsible for the modern view of the epigram. He so stamped his genius upon this literary form that from his day wit has constituted its quintessence; satire and broad humor, its keenly relished flavor. It is true that he was not the pioneer in his peculiar field. Many comic epigrams are to be found in the Greek Anthology even if we eliminate the far greater number which were written after Martial's day and which owe no less to his influence, than do those of Prior or of Pope. Yet no Greek even approaches the Roman poet in the range or variety of comic epigrams. In Greece the epigram blossomed into a perfect literary genre centuries before its charm was in any sense due to wit or humor. It had speedily lost its objective character as an inscription and had become the expression of a reflection often indeed exquisitely subtle or delicately poetic, but not incisive or satiric. The witty type of epigram developed in a later period among the Alexandrines, was of comparatively limited range and had no power to alter the early conception. For a century after the Christian era, the Greeks regarded the epigram, apart from the questions of length and verse structure, somewhat as we view the sonnet. They would have found the statement of Jean Paul that the epigram is the boundary stone between the satiric and comic most perplexing or even unintelligible. In general, their uses of literary forms have had a wonderful persistence and permanence. It is, consequently, a remarkable achievement, that a writer of another nation should have given to even the simplest kind of poetry, a new character and content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wit and Humor in Martial written by Charles Niles Alden and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Plagiarism in Latin Literature written by Scott McGill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to critics who charged him with plagiarism, Virgil is said to have responded that it was easier to steal Hercules' club than a line from Homer. This was to deny the allegations by implying that Virgil was no plagiarist at all, but an author who had done the hard work of making Homer's material his own. Several other texts and passages in Latin literature provide further evidence for accusations and denials of plagiarism. Plagiarism in Latin Literature explores important questions such as, how do Roman writers and speakers define the practice? And how do the accusations and denials function? Scott McGill moves between varied sources, including Terence, Martial, Seneca the Elder and Macrobius' Virgil criticism to explore these questions. In the process, he offers new insights into the history of plagiarism and related issues, including Roman notions of literary property, authorship and textual reuse.
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Download or read book Selected Epigrams written by Martial and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. The selections cover nearly a third of Martial's 1,500 or so epigrams, augmented by a historical introduction and informative notes.
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Download or read book The Repetition of Subject Treatment of Subject and Language in Martial s Epigrams Books I VI written by John Manning Hackler and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
