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Description for Juvenal: Satire 6
Paperback. The first commentary to adopt an integrated approach to Satire 6 by drawing together a multiplicity of different perspectives. Editor(s): Watson, Lindsay; Watson, Patricia. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of the Roman wife's canonical virtues, traces the various literary currents which infuse the Satire, and lastly addresses the much-discussed issue of the poetic voice or persona from a sociohistorical as well as a theoretical perspective. Above ... Read more
Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of the Roman wife's canonical virtues, traces the various literary currents which infuse the Satire, and lastly addresses the much-discussed issue of the poetic voice or persona from a sociohistorical as well as a theoretical perspective. Above ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521671101
SKU
V9780521671101
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About Juvenal
Lindsay Watson has recently retired as Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His major publications are Arae. The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (1991), A Commentary On Horace's Epodes (2003) and (with Patricia Watson) Martial: Select Epigrams (Cambridge, 2003). He is presently engaged on a brief monograph ... Read more
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