marcus valerius martialis

Question 1

martial full name

Answer 1

marcus valerius martialis

Question 2

martial years

Answer 2

40-104 AD

Question 3

when was martial’s exact birthday

Answer 3

march 1, 40 AD

Question 4

whose name commemorates is march 1st birth

Answer 4

martial

Question 5

what is significant of the name martial

Answer 5

commemorates his march 1st birthday

Question 6

where was martial born

Answer 6

bilbilis spain

Question 7

who was born is bilbilis spain

Answer 7

martial

Question 8

who claimed iberian and celtic ancestry

Answer 8

martial

Question 9

what two races did martial’s ancestry consist of

Answer 9

iberian and celtic

Question 10

when did martial come to rome

Answer 10

63 AD

Question 11

who was poor and depended on patronage

Answer 11

martial

Question 12

who held the rank of tribunus and eques

Answer 12

martial

Question 13

what two ranks did martial hold

Answer 13

tribunus and eques

Question 14

what grant did martial recieve

Answer 14

ius trium liberorum

Question 15

what is the ius trium liberorum

Answer 15

granted to fathers of three children

Question 16

who received the ius trium liberorum

Answer 16

martial

Question 17

why did martial receive the ius trium liberorum

Answer 17

as a favor

Question 18

who wrote liber spectaculorum

Answer 18

martial

Question 19

what did martial’s liber spectaculorum celebrate

Answer 19

opening of colosseum in 80 A.D.

Question 20

when did colosseum open

Answer 20

80 A.D.

Question 21

who wrote a work commemorating the opening of the colosseum

Answer 21

martial

Question 22

what other name is martial’s liber spectaculorum known by

Answer 22

liber de spectaculis

Question 23

how many poems is martial’s liber spectaculorum

Answer 23

33 poems

Question 24

what are the poems in liber spectaculorum about

Answer 24

praise of the emperor

Question 25

who wrote many epigrams

Answer 25

martial

Question 26

how many books of epigrams did martial write

Answer 26

14

Question 27

who was disgusted by the city of rome so he returned home to bilbilis

Answer 27

martial

Question 28

who titled some of his works “xenia” and “apophoreta”

Answer 28

martial

Question 29

what do “xenia” and “apophoreta” mean

Answer 29

gifts to friends during the saturnalia

Question 30

which of martial’s works was “xenia”

Answer 30

book 8 of epigrams

Question 31

what of martial’s work was “apophoreta”

Answer 31

book 14 of epigrams

Question 32

what was book 8 of martial’s epigrams called

Answer 32

xenia

Question 33

what was book 14 of martial’s epigrams called

Answer 33

apophoreta

Question 34

who deeply respected catullus

Answer 34

martial

Question 35

who were martial’s literary friends

Answer 35

• quintilian
• lucan
• seneca the younger
• juvenal
• pliny the younger
• silius italicus

Question 36

who later owned a cottage at nomentum

Answer 36

martial

Question 37

when did martial return to spain

Answer 37

100 AD

Question 38

why does martial flatter domitian

Answer 38

out of necessity

Question 39

what is ironic about martial’s flattery of domitian

Answer 39

his friends juvenal and tacitus hate him

Question 40

who says “soles…qui nobis pereunt et imputantur”

Answer 40

martial

Question 41

who says a famous quote about sundials

Answer 41

martial

Question 42

who wrote a poem about a slave gril who died 6 days before her 6th birthday

Answer 42

martial

Question 43

what Is martial’s most moving poem about

Answer 43

a slave girl who died 6 days before her 6th birthday