Martin’s Martial: Reconsidering Luther’s Relationship with the Classics*.
Near the end of his life, Martin Luther wrote two Latin epigrams imitating Martial’s Epigram 10.47 that have not been as well studied as they deserve to be. While not so thoroughly steeped in the classics as his friend and colleague, Philipp Melanchthon, Luther was familiar with a wide variety of cl...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 14; no. 1/2; pp. 23 - 51 |
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