juvenal - persius

This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. Susanna Morton Braund situates Juvenal within the ge

‘Romeinen imiteren de Grieken, maar de satire is van ons,’ zei in de oudheid een professor in de retorica. Het sarcastische hekeldicht werd inderdaad

Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34-62 CE) and Juvenal (writing about sixty yea

This classic edition, reissued here, was based on lectures delivered by John Connington during his tenure of the chair of Latin at Oxford in the middl