The SatiresCommonly 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. |
Contents
Why Write Satire? | 3 |
Hypocritical Perverts | 9 |
The Evils of the Big City | 15 |
The Emperors Fish | 25 |
s A Tyrannical Host | 31 |
Roman Wives | 37 |
The Plight of Intellectuals | 61 |
True Nobility | 70 |
The Futility of Aspirations | 86 |
A Simple Lifestyle | 99 |
Welcome to a Survivor | 107 |
The Influence of Vicious Parents | 120 |
A Case of Cannibalism | 131 |
The Advantages of Army Life | 137 |
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The Woes of a Gigolo | 80 |
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Common terms and phrases
6th century BC Achilles Aeneas Aeneid altar ancient Annals Apollo beard Book bracketed Brutus Caesar called Campania Catullus Cecrops century BC Ceres Cicero Claudius client condemned consul crime Crispinus Cumae daughter death disgrace Domitian Egypt emperor Epistles face famous father fear follow fortune goddess gods Gracchus Greek hand Hannibal heaven Hercules Homer honour Horace husband Iliad Isis Italy Juno Jupiter Juvenal Juvenal's killed king Latin Latium legacy-hunting living Livy Lucilius Marius Marius Priscus Mars Martial mother Naevolus Nero never night Ovid OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS Persius poem poet poison Quintilian reference rhetoric rich Roman Rome Sarmatians satire Sejanus SELECTION OF OXFORD Senate Seneca slave statue Stoic Subura Suetonius Tacitus tell temple there's things Tiberius Trajan translation Trojan tunic Ulysses Umbricius Veiento Venus Vespasian Virgil Virro wealth wife wine woman women
References to this book
A sátira e o engenho: Gregório de Matos e a Bahia do século XVII João Adolfo Hansen Limited preview - 2004 |