Volume 56, Number 3 · February 26, 2009
Court Poet & Pornographer
By G.W. Bowersock
Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Garry Wills
Viking, 205 pp., $24.95
Lord Byron lavished four memorable stanzas on the classical education of Don Juan in the first canto of his epic satire. After cataloguing authors such as Catullus and Ovid, whose indecencies served to corrupt his adolescent hero, the poet asks:
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