Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library No. 91)

Juvenal; Persius; Ramsay, G. G. [Translator]

ISBN 10: 0674991028 / ISBN 13: 9780674991026

Verlag: Loeb Classical Library, 1918

Beschreibung

[From the library of noted scholar Stephen Nichols.] Bound in red cloth. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket sunned. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2206170018

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library No. 91)
• Verlag: Loeb Classical Library
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1918
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674991028
• ISBN-13: 9780674991026
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Book by Juvenal Persius

Reseña del editor

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Juvenal, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (ca. AD 60140), master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born at Aquinum. He used his powers in the composition first of scathing satires on Roman life, with special reference to ineptitude in poetry (Satire 1); vices of fake philosophers (2); grievances of the worthy poor (3); and of clients (5); a council-meeting under Emperor Domitian (4); vicious women (6); prospects of letters and learning under a new emperor (7); virtue not birth as giving nobility (8); and the vice of homosexuals (9). Then subjects and tone change: we have the true object of prayer (10); spendthrift and frugal eating (11); a friend's escape from shipwreck; will-hunters (12); guilty conscience and desire for revenge (13); parents as examples (14); cannibalism in Egypt (15); privileges of soldiers (16, unfinished). Persius Flaccus, Aulus (AD 3462), of Volaterrae was of equestrian rank; he went to Rome and was trained in grammar, rhetoric, and Stoic philosophy. In company with his mother, sister and aunt, and enjoying the friendship of Lucan and other famous people, he lived a sober life. He left six Satires in hexameters: after a prologue (in scazon metre) we have a Satire on the corruption of literature and morals (1); foolish methods of prayer (2); deliberately wrong living and lack of philosophy (3); the well-born insincere politician, and some of our own weaknesses (4); praise of Cornutus the Stoic; servility of men (5); and a chatty poem addressed to the poet Bassus (6).