# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martial
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:06.818Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/martial"
name: "Martial"
slug: "martial"
description: "Martial wrote short, sharp poems that skewered Roman social climbers, adulterers, and phonies with a precision that still stings two millennia later. His epigrams—1,561 survived—set the template for the form: brutal, funny, and over before you see the blade."
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birthDate: "40"
deathDate: "104"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Bilbilis, a provincial town in what's now Spain, sometime between 38 and 41 AD, Marcus Valerius Martialis migrated to Rome and spent decades observing the capital's vanities and vices. Between 86 and 103 AD, under three emperors—Domitian, Nerva, and Trajan—he published twelve books of epigrams that alternated between satirising the scandalous doings of city acquaintances and romanticising the simpler life he'd left behind. Most of his 1,561 surviving poems are elegiac couplets, compact enough to deliver a punchline in two lines. He died sometime between 102 and 104, but the form he perfected—witty, caustic, merciless—has outlasted the empire that fed it.