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Juvenal: Satires Book I

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Edited by
Susanna Morton Braund
, Yale University, Connecticut
Published 1996

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Satire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal's hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His angry voice had an overwhelming influence upon later European satirists and persists in modern forms of satire. In this new commentary, Susanna Morton Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and illuminates his appropriation of the 'grand style' of declamatory rhetoric and epic poetry for his indignant persona in Satires 1–5, including the…

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Key features

  • Provides a detailed commentary of a thoroughness and sophistication of critical approach not otherwise available
  • Includes the notorious second Satire traditionally thought unfit for young people to study
  • Presents an integrated reading Satires 1–5 as an organic structure

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