Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0521356679, Paperback)

This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in the "grand style." The Commentary illuminates the content and style of Satires 1-5. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of these Satires as an organic structure.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0460871714, Paperback)

Juvenal's sixteen satires depict the brutal Roman society of his day; though written in the first century A.D., these works provided a model for the incisive satires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the present. The accompanying six satires of Persius, offering astonishing breadth of ideas and insight into contemporary Roman society, are dialogues whose speakers are indicated in this edition.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0192839454, Paperback)

This new translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters, while the Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.

Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0192817620, Paperback)

Commonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satires, Professor Rudd combines textual accuracy with colorful poetry, vividly conveying Juvenal's gift for evoking a wealth of imagery with a few economical phrases.