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Juvenal : satires book v / edited by John Godwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aris & Phillips classical texts.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Aris & Phillips classical texts
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenal--Translations into English.
- Juvenal.
- Verse satire, Latin--Translations into English.
- Verse satire, Latin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Latin, verses translated from the original Latin.
- Summary:
- Juvenal's fifth and final book of Satires consists of three complete poems and one fragment and continues and completes his satirical assessment of the Rome of the early second century AD. The poems treat us to a scandalised exposure of folly and vice and also the voice of sweet reason as the poet advises us how to live our lives - all delivered in the hugely entertaining tones of a great master of the Latin language. There is here laugh-out-loud humour, razor-sharp descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells of ancient Rome and also some of the most moving lines of this extraordinary poet. All four poems promote the value of human life and the need to accept our lives without worshipping the false gods of money, power or superstition.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78962-218-2
- 1-80085-103-0
- 1-80034-573-9
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