Photo: – (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

If you like Martial, read these authors

40–104 · 1st-century Latin poet from Hispania

Also known as: Marcus Valerius Martialis, Марк Валерий Марциал, مارتياليس, 마르티알리스, マルティアリス, 马提亚尔

Similar authors

This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Martial, their data replaces the AI suggestions.

Juvenal55–200
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Latin verse satire skewering vice and urban life in imperial Rome (AI reason)
Report
Catullus-83–-53
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Short, witty, often obscene Latin poems that served as a model for the epigram form (AI reason)
Report
Horace-64–-7
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Conversational Latin satires and lyric poems observing Roman social manners (AI reason)
Report
Petronius27–66
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Bawdy comic satire of Roman excess and social climbers (AI reason)
Report
Persius34–62
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Compressed, biting Latin verse satire on moral corruption (AI reason)
Report

Show all 10

Ovid-42–17
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Playful, urbane Latin elegiac verse on love and Roman society (AI reason)
Report
Lucian of Samosata120–180
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Mocking, irreverent satire of pretension and folly (AI reason)
Report
Apuleius125–170
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Ribald comic Latin narrative full of vivid low-life scenes (AI reason)
Report
Ausonius310–395
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Late Latin epigrams and occasional verse in a witty, learned manner (AI reason)
Report
Ben Jonson1572–1637
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
English epigrams closely modeled on Latin wit and satiric pointedness (AI reason)
Report

Pick Martial and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.