Dear Satirists,
For Friday, April 24, please do the following.
- Read and translate Martial, Epigrams 23, 25, 29, 31, 37, 38, 45, 51, 60, 70, and 71 (as numbered in the Watson & Watson commentary).
All Latin poetry deserves a content warning of some kind, but this round of poems especially so: primarily sexual content and body shaming, but no doubt you will encounter other themes that challenge our contemporary notions of correctness.
Remember that we read these epigrams in connection with the genre of satire, and not for the purpose of titillating ourselves with naughty verses (as was often the case in schoolboy receptions of Juvenal).
DC
