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Loading... The Satires of Juvenalby Juvenal, Peter Green, Juvenal (Author), Juvenal
None. Edition: // Descr: xliv, 240 p. 19 cm. // Series: College Series of Latin Authors Call No. { 877 J98 5 c. #2 } Series Edited by Clement Lawrence Smith and Tracy Peck Edited with Introduction, Notes on Thirteen Satires, and Indices by Henry Parks Wright. // //   ColgateClassics | Oct 26, 2012 |  Edition: // Descr: xliv, 240 p. 19 cm. // Series: College Series of Latin Authors Call No. { 877 J98 5 c. #1 } Series Edited by Clement Lawrence Smith and Tracey Peck Edited with Introduction, Notes on Thirteen Satires, and Indices by Henry Parks Wright. // // ColgateClassics | Oct 26, 2012 | Edition: // Descr: 186 p. 20 cm. // Series: Call No. { 877 J98 9 } Translated by Rolfe Humphries. // // ColgateClassics | Oct 26, 2012 | Edition: Reprinted Edition // Descr: lxviii, 337 p. 16.5 cm. // Series: Call No. { 877 J98 1 } Edited for the Use of Schools with Notes, Introduction, and Appendices by E.G. Hardy. // // ColgateClassics | Oct 26, 2012 | Edition: // Descr: xiii, 226 p. : ill. 17.5 cm. // Series: Appletons Classical Series Call No. { 877 J98 3 } Edited by Thomas B. Lindsay Contains Indexes of Proper Names and List of Objects Illustrated. // // ColgateClassics | Oct 26, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140447040, Paperback)Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In "The Sixteen Satires", he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Constantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal's powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society.(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:49:55 -0500) Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class, which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of dynamic outsiders, he offers equally savage portraits of decadent aristocrats, women interested only in 'rough trade' like actors and gladiators, and the jumped-up sons of panders and auctioneers. He constantly compares the corruption of his own generation with its stern upright forebears. And he makes us feel from within the deep humiliation of having to dance attendance on rich but odious patrons.For this third edition, Green's celebrated translation has been substantially revised to bring it still closer to the tone and structure of Juvenal's Latin and to take into account all important scholarship of the past quarter-century.… (more) |
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