Juvenal and Persius / with an English translation by G. G. Ramsay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juvenal

Contributor:

Persius

Ramsay, George Gilbert, 1839-1921.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 91.

Loeb classical library ; 91

Standardized Title:

Works. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Physical Description:

lxxxii, 415 pages ; 17 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1979.

Summary:

Juvenal's is an indignant satire. He moves past the urbanities of irony to pour scorn on the world of Nero and Domitian. In powerful verse Juvenal mockingly entertains his audience with society's vices and castigates the corruption of traditional values. Rome, the fiery satirist wants to show, is sick. Paired with him in this volume is the Neronian satirist Persius, who attacks not public ills but primarily Rome's degenerate literary tastes. The poet's interest in Stoicism is reflected in his focus on ethical ideals. There is comic intensity to Persius' style and also a nobility of spirit that gained him esteem among the Church Fathers.

Notes:

Latin and English on opposite pages.

ISBN:

0674991028 0434990914 (British)

OCLC:

5701198