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Martial

40 - 104

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Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martial is the 536th most popular writer (down from 479th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Spain (down from 135th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Spanish Writer.

Martial is most famous for his epigrams, which are short, witty sayings.

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Among writers, Martial ranks 536 out of 7,302. Before him are Jules Michelet, J. M. Barrie, Vasily Grossman, Richard Bach, Pierre de Ronsard, and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. After him are Vasubandhu, Luo Guanzhong, Nâzım Hikmet, Osip Mandelstam, Seneca the Elder, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Among people born in 40, Martial ranks 4. Before him are Pope Clement I, Pedanius Dioscorides, and Statius. After him are Claudia Octavia, Dio Chrysostom, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Lucius Licinius Sura, and Lucius Flavius Silva. Among people deceased in 104, Martial ranks 1. 

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Martial ranks 145 out of 3,355. Before him are Henry II of Navarre (1503), Diego de Almagro (1475), Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566), Jacinto Benavente (1866), Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895), and Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870). After him are Queen Fabiola of Belgium (1928), Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (1507), Alfonso VIII of Castile (1155), Seneca the Elder (-54), Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (1567), and Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (1726).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Martial ranks 9. Before him are Lope de Vega (1562), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Quintilian (35), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), and Jacinto Benavente (1866). After him are Seneca the Elder (-54), Camilo José Cela (1916), Henry IV of Castile (1425), Matilde Camus (1919), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881), and Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64).

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