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  • Martial XIV
    T. J. Leary
    Book XIV of Martial’s epigrams, the Apophoreta, derives its name from the presents hosts gave ’to be carried away’ by their guests at the Roman Saturnalia. The book comprises poetic couplets designed to accompany such presents and arranged so as to describe, alternately, the gifts of rich and poor. It is a unique source of information about one of the principal Roman festivals ...
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  • Martial XIII
    T. J. Leary
    Although both innovative and engaging, Book XIII of Martial’s epigrams, the Xenia, has generally been neglected. As its name suggests, it is concerned with presents, in particular those given at the Saturnalia by hosts to their dinner guests. Like the Apophoreta, which Martial published next, it comprises independent poetic couplets cast as descriptive gift-tags. Far from being...
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    61,64 €

  • Symphosius The Aenigmata
    T.J. Leary
    The post-classical compilation known to modern scholarship as the Latin Anthology contains a collection of a hundred riddles, each consisting of three hexameters and preceded by a lemma. It would seem from the preface to this collection that they were composed extempore at a dinner to celebrate the Roman Saturnalia. The work was to have a defining influence on later collections...
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    66,60 €

  • Pentre Farm, Flint, 1976-81
    Chris Musson / Kevin Blockley / T. J. O’Leary / TJO’Leary
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