Craig A. Williams is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity.

...readers new to Martial will no doubt find the book a useful tool...The translations are very readable and [Williams] has done a good job in reflecting the tone of Martial's Latin.

• Abbreviations Introduction 1: Martial's Life and Works 2: Epigram before Martial 3: Characteristics of Martial's Epigrams 3.1: Themes 3.2: Characters 3.3: Formal Features: Point, Bipartite Structure, Length, and Meter 3.4: Book Structure 4: Nachleben and Reception 5: Manuscript Tradition Text, Translation, and Commentary Bibliography Indices

Craig A. Williams is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity.

...readers new to Martial will no doubt find the book a useful tool...The translations are very readable and [Williams] has done a good job in reflecting the tone of Martial's Latin.

• Abbreviations Introduction 1: Martial's Life and Works 2: Epigram before Martial 3: Characteristics of Martial's Epigrams 3.1: Themes 3.2: Characters 3.3: Formal Features: Point, Bipartite Structure, Length, and Meter 3.4: Book Structure 4: Nachleben and Reception 5: Manuscript Tradition Text, Translation, and Commentary Bibliography Indices