Trajan
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| - | '''Marcus Valerius Martialis''', known in [[English language|English]] as '''Martial''', was a [[Latin literature|Latin poet]] from [[Hispania]] (the [[Iberian Peninsula]]) best known for his twelve books of ''[[Epigram]]s'', known as ''[[The Epigrams]]'', published in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] between AD [[86]] and [[103]], during the reigns of the [[Roman emperor|emperors]] [[Domitian]], [[Nerva]] and [[Trajan]]. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully [[satire|satirises]] city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 - 1,235 of which are in [[elegiac]] [[couplets]]. He is considered the creator of the modern [[epigram]]. | ||
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| - | The works of Martial became highly valued on their discovery by the [[Renaissance]], whose writers often saw them as sharing an eye for the urban [[vice]]s of their own times. The poet's influence is seen in [[Juvenal]], late [[classical literature]], the [[Carolingian revival]], the [[Renaissance in France]] and [[Italian Renaissance|Italy]], the [[Siglo de Oro]], and [[early modern English]] and [[German poetry]], until with the growth of the [[romanticism|Romantic Movement]] he became [[unfashionable]]. | ||
| + | '''Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus''', commonly known as '''Trajan''' ([[18 September]] [[53]] – [[8 August]] [[117]]), was a [[Roman Emperors|Roman Emperor]] who reigned from A. D. 98 until his death in A. D. 117. | ||
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Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan (18 September 53 – 8 August 117), was a Roman Emperor who reigned from A. D. 98 until his death in A. D. 117.
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