This title offers a new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. The study is unified by the idea of Juvenal as an 'invisible satirist'. Previous studies have focused…
"Edward Courtney's study of the Satires of Juvenal is the only full-scale commentary on the corpus since the nineteenth century and retains its value for students and scholars a generation after its first appearance in 1980. This commentary incorporates the findings of classical…
Edward Courtney's study of the Satires of Juvenal is the only full-scale commentary on the corpus since the nineteenth century and retains its value for students and scholars a generation after its first appearance in 1980. This commentary incorporates the findings of classical …
"An updated translation of two of Juvenal's most provocative poems in a style that is accessible to a modern audience, accompanied by explanatory notes and an introduction geared toward undergraduates and those beginning their study of Juvenal"--
Who Was Juvenal? -- The Manuscript Tradition -- Life and Times in the High Empire -- Juvenal and the Roman Genre of Satire -- Roman Men and Woman: Gender Norms and Deviations -- Marriage and Morality: From Republic to Empire -- Satire 2: Worse Comes to Worst -- Satire 6: Women. …
"An updated translation of two of Juvenal's most provocative poems in a style that is accessible to a modern audience, accompanied by explanatory notes and an introduction geared toward undergraduates and those beginning their study of Juvenal"--
For students and scholars of gender and sexuality, these poems are crucial texts. Chiara Sulprizio's lively translation, perfectly suited for classroom use, captures the vivid spirit of Juvenal's poems, and her extensive notes enhance the volume's appeal by explicating the poems…
"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 tradi…
