Juvenal: Satire 6

by Juvenal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521671108
• ISBN13: 9780521671101
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"