Playername	Ben Youngs
Fullname	Benjamin Ryder Youngs
Dateofbirth	September 05, 1989
Cityofbirth	Norwich
Countryofbirth	England
Height
Weight
Nickname	Youngster, Youngsy, Benny
School	Gresham's School
Relatives	Nick YoungsTom Youngs
Position	Scrum-half
Currentclub	Leicester Tigers
Clubnumber	23
Youthyears	2006–
Youthclubs	North WalshamLeicester Academy
Years	2006–
Clubs
Caps(points)	69 (70)
Repyears	2008–20092010–2010–
Repteam	England U20England AEngland
Repcaps(points)	15 (20)1 (0)3 (5)
Ru sevensnationalyears	2008
Ru sevensnationalteam	England
Ru sevensnationalcomp	Hong Kong

Benjamin Ryder Youngs (born 5 September 1989 in Norwich, England) is an English rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers and England.

Background

His older brother Tom Youngs is also a rugby player, currently a hooker at Nottingham RFC, and his father Nick Youngs played scrum-half for both Leicester and England.

Former Tigers and England utility back Austin Healey referred to Youngs as a potential world beater.

Club career

Youngs made his Leicester Tigers first team début against Argentina in 2007 and became Leicester’s youngest ever league player when he came off the bench against Bristol. Later that season, he played in the final of the 2006–07 Guinness Premiership. Youngs was nominated as the 2008–09 Guinness Premiership Discovery of the Season award.

He was instrumental in their 22–17 defeat of the Springboks in a Friendly match on the 6 November 2009. Due to injury to squadmate Harry Ellis, he was able to hold down a starting place in the 2009–10 season. In February 2010, Youngs signed a new contract. His team-mates voted him Leicester Tigers Player of the Season for 2009/10. In a season littered with awards, he also picked up the Landrover Discovery of the Season award. He crowned off the season by playing in the 2009-10 Guinness Premiership final victory over Saracens.

International career

Youngs has played for England U-16, U-18 and in March 2008 was a member of the England under-20 team that won the grand slam.

Later that month, Youngs made his debut for the England Sevens team at the Hong Kong sevens.

Youngs played in the final of both the 2008 IRB Junior World Championship. and 2009 IRB Junior World Championship.

He was picked for the revised England Saxons Squad on 13 January 2010, and upgraded to the revised Senior Squad as injury cover for Harry Ellis on 25 January 2010. Later that month, he made his debut for the England Saxons, against Ireland A. He made his senior England debut as a substitute on the wing for the injured Ugo Monye in the Calcutta Cup match against on 13 March 2010, and was an unused replacement in the match against . He continued as part of the senior squad on their tour of Australia, and played in both Test matches.

Youngs made his first international start in England's 21 – 20 win over in Sydney, on 19 June 2010. He played an important role in improving the England gameplan in the game, and scored a solo try in the first half. On 13 November 2010, Youngs was awarded man of the match award for his outstanding performance against Australia.

References

External links

Leicester profile

England profile

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Playername	Chris Ashton
Fullname	Christopher Ashton
Nickname	Ash
Dateofbirth	March 29, 1987
Placeofbirth	Billinge, Wigan, Greater Manchester
Countryofbirth	England
Height
Weight
Position
Club1	Wigan Warriors
Year1start	2005
Year1end	2007
Appearances1	52
Tries1	30
Goals1	0
Fieldgoals1	0
Points1	120
Teama	England
Yearastart	2006
Appearancesa	4
Triesa	3
Goalsa	0
Fieldgoalsa	0
Pointsa	12
Rl amateuryears	2003–2005
Rl amateurclubs	Wigan Academy
Ru currentclub	Northampton Saints
Ru position
Ru club1	Northampton
Ru year1start	2007
Ru year1end	present
Ru appearances1	81
Ru tries1	78
Ru goals1	1
Ru fieldgoals1	0
Ru points1	392
Ru teama	England
Ru yearastart	2010
Ru yearaend	present
Ru appearancesa	5
Ru triesa	3
Ru goalsa	0
Ru fieldgoalsa	0
Ru pointsa	15
Updated	13 November 2010
Source	Rugby League Project

Chris Ashton (born 29 March 1987 in Wigan, Greater Manchester) is an English rugby union player. Ashton plays wing for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership.

Personal life

Chris Ashton comes from a sporting background. His father, Kevin Ashton, was a rugby union footballer for Wigan R.U.F.C., and his grandfather was a successful Rugby footballer.

Career

Wigan Warriors (rugby league)

Ashton's position of choice was as a full-back. He could also operate on the wing.

Ashton came through Wigan's scholarship programme and played in Wigan Warriors Youth Development U18s in 2003. He was selected for the 2004 Academy Origin Series and the 2004 victorious England Academy U-18s tour to Australia.

After impressing in the academy, where he scored 27 tries in 23 games, he made his Super League debut against Hull in June 2005, at the age of 18. He has since made 35 appearances for the Cherry and Whites, scoring 19 tries.

Ashton was brought into the Wigan squad at the start of 2006 as replacement for the injured Kris Radlinski. Ashton had impressed on his debut for Wigan in 2005, but in 2006 he showed good skill, pace and talent and impressed many Wigan fans and people within rugby league. He finished the 2006 as Wigan's leading try scorer and his support play through out the season was excellent, and although some criticisms were made about his defensive abilities, he earned a call into the England squad at the end of the year. Ashton was one of the most consistent players for Wigan during a disappointing Super League XI season and was a contender for the Young Player of the Year award. Ashton finished the 2006 with 15 tries form 29 appearances making him the leading try scorer for Wigan in 2006.

Ashton was given the number 1 shirt at the start of 2007 despite the arrival of former Bradford Northern full back Michael Withers. Previously the number 1 shirt was worn by Kris Radlinski and had been for 12 years and many people believed that Ashton had the talent to be a good replacement for Radlinski. Furthermore adding to his reputation as something of an enigma, Ashton made a mixed start to the 2007 season, being criticised for his poor defence under high kicks error-strewn play during the pre-season friendlies and the 28–32 loss to Bradford Bulls in round 3; in which he was also sin binned for a professional foul.

Northampton Saints (rugby union)

On March 19, 2007 it was announced that Ashton had signed to play rugby union for Northampton Saints. Wigan granted Ashton an early release from his contract, freeing him to complete his cross-code move.

On September 1, 2007, Ashton made his debut for Northampton Saints at Franklin's Gardens as a late substitute for Will Harries against London Welsh in National Division One. He scored his first try for the club, with his first touch of the ball, in the same game which Saints won 44–11.

So far, Ashton has over a 1 try-per-game ratio in rugby union, scoring on his debut, for the first team, the following week for Northampton's second team, Northampton Wanderers and a substitute scoring appearance against Moseley.

Ashton has broken the National Division One try scorer record, scoring 39 tries (and one conversion) from only 25 appearances.

Despite a relatively disappointing 2008–2009 season, with many appearances in the Wanderers and struggling to make it into the first team as a regular fixture, in the 2009–2010 season Ashton has embarked on a sparkling run of form that brought 15 tries in 16 games in all competitions including Heineken Cup efforts against Munster and Perpignan. His try-scoring exploits brought him to the attention of the national selectors and England manager Martin Johnson rewarded him by calling him up to the senior squad for the 2010 Six Nations. He is currently the Guinness Premiership's Top Try Scorer and has recently signed a further two year contract with Northampton.

He was named as the Premiership player of the season.

England

Ashton made his England début against France on Saturday, 20 March in Paris. He wore 11 and played left wing, the opposite side to his usual position with Northampton. He gave the scoring pass to fellow Saints player, fullback Ben Foden, who was also making his first Six Nations start.

He was taken on the summer tour to , and played in both Test matches. Although England lost the first Test, they won the second 20–21. Ashton scored his first international try in this match. On 13 November 2010, England downed Australia impressively at Twickenham. Ashton was the hero of the match with two tries in the 35–18 victory, the second being an outstanding 95m effort.

References

External links

Player profile on Scrum.com

Northampton profile

England profile

Career Stats@Statbunker

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Name	Toby Flood
Birthname	Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven Flood
Dateofbirth	August 08, 1985
Placeofbirth	Frimley, Surrey, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	14 st 7 lbs (92 Kg)
Nickname	Floody
School	Chantry SchoolThe King's School
University	Northumbria University
Ru position	Fly-half / Centre
Ru amateurclubs	Alnwick RFCMorpeth RFC
Ru clubyears	2004–20082008–
Ru proclubs	Leicester Tigers
Ru clubcaps	70 41
Ru clubpoints	(258)(517)
Ru nationalyears	2006 ‐
Ru nationalteam	England
Ru nationalcaps	35
Ru nationalpoints	(143)
Repupdate	09 Dec 2010

Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven Flood (born 8 August 1985, Frimley, Surrey) is an English rugby union player. He currently plays at fly half or inside centre for Leicester Tigers, having signed from Newcastle Falcons, and England.

Background

Toby comes from a thespian lineage. Both of his grandfathers were actors – Gerald Flood featured in the television drama series ‘The Ratcatchers’ and Albert Lieven appeared in the film ‘The Guns of Navarone’. His father, Tim, is the programme and marketing manager of The Customs House South Shields.

Flood was raised in Morpeth, Northumberland where he attended Chantry School. He also went to Kings School in Tynemouth. Flood graduated from Northumbria University in 2007 with a degree in business management Flood has also undertaken a Graduate Diploma in Law, in preparation for his planned post-rugby career as a lawyer.

Club career

A product of the Falcons academy, his third year at the university was completed on a part-time basis due to his rugby commitments. Jonny Wilkinson trained the Kings School first team while Flood was a student there. On 3 May 2008, it was announced that Flood was set to leave Newcastle Falcons for Leicester Tigers. He was officially confirmed as a Leicester player on 11 June 2008.

As a Tigers player, he was the first to top their points scoring list in a debut season since Dusty Hare in 1976–77. His debut game was in the first game of the season, against Gloucester, and he managed to score a try. The shine came off his season, however, when he injured his Achilles in the 2008-09 Heineken Cup semi-final game against Cardiff Blues – right before the professional rugby's first ever sudden death kicking competition. He was unable to take part in either of the Tigers' finals that year.

The injury unfortunately ruled him out of the first two months of the 2009–10 season as well, and he returned in November, in a 2009-10 LV= Cup win against Newport Gwent Dragons. He stayed relatively injury-free for the rest of the season, however, and his good form helped the Tigers to top the table. They went on to win the 2009-10 Guinness Premiership final 33–27 against Saracens.

International career

In the autumn of 2006, he came on twice as a fly-half replacement for England, his first cap coming in the defeat to Argentina. With Brian Ashton installed as the new England head coach, Flood was selected in the Elite squad for England's 2007 Six Nations campaign. Flood came on as a replacement in the game against to win his fourth England cap. He started his first game for England against at Twickenham and went on to score a try, helping England to a 26–18 victory. His personal points tally in the match was 16 points. Flood also started in the defeat to .

Ashton included Flood in the Elite squad for 2007 Rugby World Cup campaign of France, as a replacement for then Newcastle team-mate Jamie Noon. He came on as a substitute in the quarter final against Australia, which England won 12–10. Flood also came off the bench in the semi final win over France and in the loss in the world cup final to South Africa.

He scored England's opening try in the 2008 Six Nations game against Wales, and managed another the following game against .

After acting as a replacement in the first two games of the 2009 Six Nations, Flood started the away game against , and held onto the fly-half shirt for the remaining two wins against France and Scotland. His Achilles injury saw him lose it to former clubmate Jonny Wilkinson for the 2009 Autumn internationals, but he started the first 2010 Six Nations game against Wales at inside centre, due to injury to Riki Flutey. He finished the Six Nations once more in possession of the England 10 shirt during the game against France, and retained it for the summer tour. Although England lost the first game, Flood was able to link up with his club colleague Ben Youngs in a strong half-back pairing in the second. A much improved performance saw England beat Australia 20–21.

References

External links

Scrum.com player statistics

Newcastle Falcons profile

Tigers profile

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Name	Martial
Birthdate	March 1, 40
Birthplace	Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain)
Deathdate	Between 102 and 104 AD
Deathplace	Rome
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Roman
Genre	Satire
Notableworks	Epigrams
Influences	Catullus, Pedo, and Marsus and Juvenal

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD), was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) 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.

Early life

Knowledge of his origins and early life are derived almost entirely from his works, which can be more or less dated according to the well-known events to which they refer. In Book X of his Epigrams, composed between 95 and 98, he mentions celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday; hence he was born on March 1 (x. 24) 38, 39, 40 or 41 AD, under Caligula or Claudius. His place of birth was Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud) in Hispania Tarraconensis. His parents, Fronto and Flaccilla, appear to have died in his youth.

His name seems to imply that he was born a Roman citizen, but he speaks of himself as "sprung from the Celts and Iberians, and a countryman of the Tagus;" and, in contrasting his own masculine appearance with that of an effeminate Greek, he draws particular attention to "his stiff Hispanian hair" (x. 65, 7).

His home was evidently one of rude comfort and plenty, sufficiently in the country to afford him the amusements of hunting and fishing, which he often recalls with keen pleasure, and sufficiently near the town to afford him the companionship of many comrades, the few survivors of whom he looks forward to meeting again after his thirty-four years' absence (x. 104). The memories of this old home, and of other spots, the rough names and local associations which he delights to introduce into his verse, attest to the simple pleasures of his early life and were among the influences which kept his spirit alive in the stultifying routines of upper-crust social life in Rome.

He was educated in Hispania, a country which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers, including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, Lucan and Quintilian, and Martial's contemporaries Licinianus of Bilbilis, Decianus of Emerita and Canius of Gades. Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus, Pedo, and Marsus, and he admits his inferiority only to the first. The epigram bears to this day the form impressed upon it by his unrivalled skill.

Life in Rome

The success of his countrymen may have been what motivated Martial to move to Rome, from Hispania, once he had completed his education. This move occurred in AD 64, in which Seneca the Younger and Lucan may have served as his first patrons.

Not much is known of the details of his life for the first twenty years or so after he came to Rome. He published some juvenile poems of which he thought very little in his later years, and he laughs at a foolish bookseller who would not allow them to die a natural death (I. 113). Martial had neither youthful passion nor youthful enthusiasm to precociously make him a poet. His faculty ripened with experience and with the knowledge of that social life which was both his theme and his inspiration; many of his best epigrams are among those written in his last years. From many answers which he makes to the remonstrances of friends—among others to those of Quintilian—it may be inferred that he was urged to practice at the bar, but that he preferred his own lazy Bohemian kind of life. He made many influential friends and patrons and secured the favor of both Titus and Domitian. From them he obtained various privileges, among others the semestris tribunatus, which conferred on him equestrian rank. Martial failed, however, in his application to Domitian for more substantial advantages, although he commemorates the glory of having been invited to dinner by him, and also the fact that he procured the privilege of citizenship for many persons on whose behalf he appealed to him.

The earliest of his extant works, known as Liber spectaculorum, was first published at the opening of the Colosseum in the reign of Titus. It relates to the theatrical performances given by him, but the book as it now stands was presented to the world in or about the first year of Domitian, i.e. about the year 81. The favour of the emperor procured him the countenance of some of the worst creatures at the imperial court—among them of the notorious Crispinus, and probably of Paris, the supposed author of Juvenal's exile, for whose monument Martial afterwards wrote a eulogistic epitaph. The two books, numbered by editors xiii. and xiv., and known by the names of Xenia and Apophoreta—inscriptions in two lines each for presents—were published at the Saturnalia of 84. In 86 he gave to the world the first two of the twelve books on which his reputation rests.

From that time till his return to Hispania in 98 he published a volume almost every year. The first nine books and the first edition of Book X. appeared in the reign of Domitian; Book XI. appeared at the end of 96, shortly after the accession of Nerva. A revised edition of book X., that which we now possess, appeared in 98, about the time of Trajan's entrance into Rome. The last book was written after three years' absence in Hispania, shortly before his death, which happened about the year 102 or 103.

These twelve books bring Martial's ordinary mode of life between the age of forty-five and sixty very fully before us. His regular home for thirty-five years was Rome. He lived at first up three flights of stairs, and his "garret" overlooked the laurels in front of the portico of Agrippa. He had a small villa and unproductive farm near Nomentum, in the Sabine territory, to which he occasionally retired from the boors and noises of the city (ii. 38, xii. 57). In his later years he had also a small house on the Quirinal, near the temple of Quirinus.

At the time when his third book was brought out he had retired for a short time to Cisalpine Gaul, in weariness, as he tells us, of his unprofitable attendance to the bigwigs of Rome. For a time he seems to have felt the charm of the new scenes which he visited, and in a later book (iv. 25) he contemplates the prospect of retiring to the neighbourhood of Aquileia and the Timavus. But the spell exercised over him by Rome and Roman society was too great; even the epigrams sent from Forum Corneli and the Aemilian Way ring much more of the Roman forum, and of the streets, baths, porticos and clubs of Rome, than of the places from which they are dated.

His final departure from Rome was motivated by a weariness of the burdens imposed on him by his social position, and apparently the difficulties of meeting the ordinary expenses of living in the metropolis (x. 96); and he looks forward to a return to the scenes familiar to his youth. The well-known epigram addressed to Juvenal (xii. I 8) shows that for a time his ideal was realized; but the more trustworthy evidence of the prose epistle prefixed to Book XII. proves and that he could not live happily away from the literary and social pleasures of Rome for long. The one consolation of his exile was a lady, Marcella, of whom he writes rather as if she were his patroness—and it seems to have been a necessity of his being to have always a patron or patroness—than his wife or mistress.

During his life at Rome, although he never rose to a position of real independence, and had always a hard struggle with poverty, he seems to have known everybody, especially every one of any eminence at the bar or in literature. In addition to Lucan and Quintilian, he numbered among his friends or more intimate acquaintances Silius Italicus, Juvenal, the younger Pliny; and there were many others of high position whose society and patronage he enjoyed. The silence which he and Statius, although authors writing at the same time, having common friends and treating often of the same subjects, maintain in regard to one another may be explained by mutual dislike or want of sympathy. Martial in many places shows an undisguised contempt for the artificial kind of epic on which Statius's reputation chiefly rests; and it seems quite natural that the respectable author of the Thebaid and the Silvae should feel little admiration for either the life or the works of the bohemian epigrammatist.

Martial and his patrons

Martial was dependent on his wealthy friends and patrons for gifts of money, for his dinner, and even for his dress, but the relation of client to patron had been recognized as an honourable one by the best Roman traditions. No blame had attached to Virgil or Horace on account of the favours which they received from Augustus and Maecenas, or of the return which they made for these favours in their verse. That old honourable relationship, however, greatly changed between Augustus and Domitian. Men of good birth and education, and sometimes even of high official position (Juv. i. 117), accepted the dole (sportula). Martial was merely following a general fashion in paying his court to "a lord," and he made the best of the custom. In his earlier career he used to accompany his patrons to their villas at Baiae or Tibur, and to attend their morning levees. Later on, he went to his own small country house, near Nomentum, and sent a poem, or a small volume of his poems, as his representative at the early visit.

Martial's character

Pliny the Younger, in the short tribute which he pays to him on hearing of his death, wrote, "He had as much good-nature as wit and pungency in his writings" (Ep. iii. 21). Martial professes to avoid personalities in his satire, and honour and sincerity (fides and simplicitas) seem to have been the qualities which he most admires in his friends. Some have found distasteful his apparent servile flattery to the worst of the many bad emperors of Rome in the 1st century. These were emperors Martial would later censure immediately after their death (xii. 6). However, he seems to have disliked hypocrisy in its many forms, and seems to be free from cant, pedantry, or affectation of any kind.

Though many of his epigrams indicate a cynical disbelief in the character of women, yet others prove that he could respect and almost revere a refined and courteous lady. His own life in Rome afforded him no experience of domestic virtue; but his epigrams show that, even in the age which is known to modern readers chiefly from the Satires of Juvenal, virtue was recognized as the purest source of happiness. The tenderest element in Martial's nature seems, however, to have been his affection for children and for his dependents.

Martial's Epigrams

Martial's keen curiosity and power of observation are manifested in his epigrams. The enduring literary interest of Martial's epigrams arises as much from their literary quality as from the colorful references to human life that they contain. Martial's epigrams bring to life the spectacle and brutality of daily life in imperial Rome, with which he was intimately connected.

From Martial, for example, we have a glimpse of living conditions in the city of Rome:

: "I live in a little cell, with a window that won't even close, : In which Boreas himself would not want to live."

As Jo-Ann Shelton has written, "fire was a constant threat in ancient cities because wood was a common building material and people often used open fires and oil lamps. However, some people may have deliberately set fire to their property in order to collect insurance money." Martial makes this accusation in one of his epigrams:

: "Tongilianus, you paid two hundred for your house; : An accident much common in this city destroyed it. : You collected ten times more. Doesn't it seem, I pray, : That you set fire to your own house, Tongilianus?"

Martial also pours scorn on the doctors of his day:

:"I felt a little ill and called Dr. Symmachus. :Well, you came, Symmachus, but you brought 100 medical students with you. :One hundred ice-cold hands poked and jabbed me. :I didn't have a fever, Symmachus, when I called you –but now I do.

Martial's epigrams also refer to the extreme cruelty shown to slaves in Roman society. Below, he chides a man named Rufus for flogging his cook for a minor mistake:

: "You say that the rabbit isn't cooked, and ask for the whip; : Rufus, you prefer to carve up your cook than your rabbit."

Martial's epigrams are also characterized by their biting and often scathing sense of wit as well as for their lewdness; this has earned him a place in literary history as the original insult comic. Below is a sample of his more insulting work:

:"You feign youth, Laetinus, with your dyed hairSo suddenly you are a raven, but just now you were a swan. You do not deceive everyone. Proserpina knows you are grey-haired; She will remove the mask from your head."

:"Rumor tells, Chiona, that you are a virgin, and that nothing is purer than your fleshy delights. Nevertheless, you do not bathe with the correct part covered: if you have the decency, move your panties onto your face."

:"'You are a frank man', you are always telling me, Cerylus. Anyone who speaks against you, Cerylus, is a frank man."

:"Eat lettuce and soft apples eat: For you, Phoebus, have the harsh face of a defecating man."

Or the following two examples (in rather less stilted translations by Mark Ynys-Mon):

:Fabullus' wife Bassa frequently totes :A friend's baby, on which she loudly dotes. :Why does she take on this childcare duty? :It explains farts that are somewhat fruity.

:With your giant nose and cock :I bet you can with ease :When you get excited :check the end for cheese.

Reception

The works of Martial became highly valued on their discovery by the Renaissance, whose writers often saw them as sharing an eye for the urban vices of their own times. The poet's influence is seen in Juvenal, late classical literature, the Carolingian revival, the Renaissance in France and Italy, the Siglo de Oro, and early modern English and German poetry, until with the growth of the Romantic Movement he became unfashionable.

Notes

External links

Works

Martial on Wikisource

Liber spectaculorum (in Latin)

Epigrammata (in Latin) at Bibliotheca Augustana.

Epigrammaton (in Latin) at The Latin Library.

Complete Epigrams (in English) at The Tertullian Project – actually incomplete: sexual explicit material is untranslated.

Selected Epigrams in translation at Theatre of Pompey: 2:14; 6:9; 10:51; 11:1; 14:29; 14:166

Some of Martial's more risqué Epigrams translated by Joseph S Salemi

Selected Epigrams translated by Elizabeth Duke

Translations from Martial by Franklin P Adams

Apophoreta (in Latin)

Xenia (in Latin)

Other links

Poems by Martial at Poemhunter.com

Martial Quotations at The Quotations Page

Martial Blog

SORGLL: Martial I.96, V.41, and X.30; read by Wakefield Foster

Court Poet & Pornographer Glen Bowersock on Martial from The New York Review of Books

References

J P Sullivan. Martial: the unexpected classic (1991)

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