Full Description
Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson, Dryden, and most notably, Dr Johnson, who described his writing as `a mixture of gaiety and statelines, of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur'.
Juvenal has been seen as a stern moralist and, more recently, as an extravagant wit, and is acclaimed for his vivid description of the scenes which aroused his anger. He coined the famous phrase designating people `eager and anxious for two things; bread and races' (panem et circenses').
Niall Rudd's translation reproduces the original style and metrical effect of Juvenal's hexameters. William Barr's Introduction and Notes provide literary and historical background to the sixteen satires.
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Contents
ContentsIntroductionTranslator's PrefaceSelect BibliographyList of DatesTHE SATIRES1 Why Write Satire?2 Hypocritical Perverts3 The Evils of the Big City4 The Emperor's Fish5 A Tyrannical Host6 Roman Wives7 The Plight of Intellectuals8 True Nobility9 The Woes of a Gigolo10 The Futility of Aspirations11 A Simple Life-style12 Welcome to a Survivor13 A Consolation14 The Influence of Vicious Parents15 A Case of Cannibalism16 The Advantages of Army LifeExplanatory NotesIndex of Names
