James Uden

The Invisible Satirist

Juvenal and Second-Century Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a new interpretation of the complete Satires of Juvenal. Juvenal has long been recognized as a canonical figure in the genre of Roman verse satire, but The Invisible Satirist rediscovers the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190886967
• ISBN-10: 019088696X
• Artikelnr.: 53448492

Autorenporträt

James Uden is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviation and text
Introduction
1. Satire 1: Poetry, Accusation, and the Audience's Role
2. The Invisibility of Juvenal
3. Romans and Greeks: New Views in the Graeca Urbs
4. Satire 8: Genealogy and Nobility in Hadrian's Rome
5. Satire 10: The Satirist Among Cynics
6. Religion and Repetition: Satire 12
Epilogue: Outsider Empire
Appendix: The Date of Juvenal's First Book of Satires
Works cited
Index locorum
Index