Juvenal: Satires Book I

Juvenal author Susanna Morton Braund editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Mar '96

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This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal.

Satire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal's hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His angry voice had an overwhelming influence upon later European satirists and persists in modern forms of satire. In this new commentary, Susanna Morton Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and illuminates his appropriation of the 'grand style' of declamatory rhetoric and epic poetry for his indignant persona in Satires 1–5, including the notorious second Satire. The commentary on each of the Satires is followed by an essay which offers an interpretation of the poem, including a synthesis of recent critical thought. These essays, together with the overview in the Introduction, present the first integrated reading of Book I as an organic structure.

'… well-balanced and easy to consult … recommended not only to established scholars of Roman literature but also to students reading Juvenal.' ARCTOS

ISBN: 9780521356671

Dimensions: 186mm x 123mm x 23mm

Weight: 360g

332 pages