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Martial
c. 40 CE–c. 104 CE · Rome
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known as Martial (c. 40-c. 104 CE), was a Roman poet from Bilbilis in Spain who spent most of his career at Rome. He is the great master of the Latin epigram, the short, pointed poem, and his twelve published books of epigrams paint a witty, satirical, and remarkably vivid picture of everyday life in imperial Rome. His work fixed the modern sense of the 'epigram' as a sharp, often comic verse.
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About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Martial’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Philo of Alexandria· Rome
- Peter the Apostle· Rome
- Paul the Apostle· Rome
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Evaristus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Anacletus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Linus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Mark the Evangelist· Rome
- Luke the Evangelist· Rome
- Clement of Rome· Rome
In the same tradition
Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Musonius Rufus, Persius, Quintilian, Titus, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Plutarch, Domitian
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Martial’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.