The Satires

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - 250 páginas
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.

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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
Index of Names
235
Derechos de autor

The Woes of a Gigolo
80

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The 16 Satires (c.110--127) of Juvenal, which contain a vivid picture of contemporary Rome under the Empire, have seldom been equaled as biting diatribes. The satire was the only literary form that the Romans did not copy from the Greeks. Horace merely used it for humorous comment on human folly. Juvenal's invectives in powerful hexameters, exact and epigrammatic, were aimed at lax and luxurious society, tyranny (Domitian's), criminal excesses, and the immorality of women. Juvenal was so sparing of autobiographical detail that we know very little of his life. He was desperately poor at one time and may have been an important magistrate at another. His influence was great in the Middle Ages; in the seventeenth century he was well translated by Dryden, and in the eighteenth century he was paraphrased by Johnson in his London and The Vanity of Human Wishes. He inspired in Swift the same savage bitterness.

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