death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality notableworks birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
between 102 and 104 ad rome juvenal augusta bilbilis -lrb- now calatayud , spain -rrb- catullus , pedo , and marsus roman '' epigrams '' march , between 38 and 41 satire martialis.jpg martial
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marcus valerius martialis -lrb- known in english as martial -rrb- -lrb- march , between 38 and 41 ad -- between 102 and 104 ad -rrb- , was a roman poet from hispania -lrb- the iberian peninsula -rrb- 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 short , witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances , and romanticises his provincial upbringing .
he wrote a total of 1,561 , of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets .
he is considered to be the creator of the modern epigram .
