Up at a Villa, Down in the City? Four Epigrams of Martial
It did not seem to us that rendition into the rhyming couplets of, say, an Alexander Pope from an earlier age or a James Michie from our own, or into the more contemporary free-verse style of a Palmer Bovie, would offer any more faithful a guide to Martial than the sort of fidelity we were aiming for. Especially for a readership coming from a background in modern English poetry, it seemed to us that a translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the elegiac couplets, the hendecasyllabics, the limping iambic trimeters, and so on, of Martial’s original poems might have real value.
Roman Corinth: the formation of a colonial elite
This paper uses the duoviral coinage and epigraphy of Roman Corinth to define more closely the social and geographical origins of the group who, as holders of the highest offices in the colony, constituted its govering class in the period from Augustus to Nero.