Satire 6

by Juvenal

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Title Statements

Full title :Satire 6 / Juvenal, edited by Lindsay Watson and Patricia Watson, University of Sydney.

Summary

"Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of the Roman wife's canonical virtues, traces the various literary currents which infuse the Satire, and lastly addresses the much-discussed issue of the poetic voice or persona from a sociohistorical as well as a theoretical perspective. Above all, the commentary strives to locate Juvenal in his historical, literary and cultural context, while simultaneously affording assistance with the nuts and bolts of the Latin, and always keeping in view two key questions: what was Juvenal's purpose in writing the Satire? How seriously was it meant to be taken?"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 320 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521854911, 9780521854917, 0521671108, 9780521671101
oclc:ocn871343700
LC Classification:PA6446.A66
Dewey Decimal:871/.01

1. Juvenal: life and work -- 2. Satire 6: structure and themes -- (a). The programmatic function of the prologue -- (b). Correspondences between prologue and epilogue (ring composition) -- (c). Recurrent themes giving unity to the Satire -- (d). Connections between sections effected by thematic or linguistic copulae -- 3. Juvenal's anti-matrona -- 4. Misogyny in literature -- 5. The persona -- 6. Juvenal's style -- 7. Textual tradition and the Oxford fragment -- 8. Summary of Satire 6 -- D. Ivni Ivvenalis Satvra VI -- Commentary.

Subjects

Australian Criticism, interpretation, etc Femmes dans la littérature HISTORY -- Ancient Juvenal Mariage dans la littérature Marriage in literature Poésie satirique latine -- Histoire et … Satura 6 (Juvenal) Verse satire, Latin Verse satire, Latin -- History and crit… Women in literature