Juvenal: Satires Book I

by Juvenal

Book Overview

This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in the grand style. The Commentary illuminates the content and style of Satires 1-5. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521356679
• ISBN13: 9780521356671
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 5.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 7.3"