Juvenal: Satire 6

by Juvenal, Lindsay Watson (Editor), Patricia Watson (Editor)

Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradition of Roman satire, interrogates afresh the poem's architecture and recurrent themes, shows how Juvenal systematically attributes to his monstrous women the inverse of the Roman wife's canonical virtues, traces the various literary currents which infuse the Satire, and lastly addresses the much-discussed issue of the poetic voice or persona from a sociohistorical as well as a theoretical perspective. Above all, the commentary strives to locate Juvenal in his historical, literary and cultural context, while simultaneously affording assistance with the nuts and bolts of the Latin, and always keeping in view two key questions: what was Juvenal's purpose in writing the Satire? How seriously was it meant to be taken?

333 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known commonly by the shortened Anglicized version of his name Juvenal, was a Roman poet of the late first and early second centuries AD/CE. He is the author of The Satires, a series of sixteen short poems in dactylic hexameter on a variety of subjects.

Date of birth: ca. 55 A.D.
Date of death: ca. 138 A.D.

Reviews

[Mattia Fino · Rating 4 out of 5]

È geniale ma assolutamente incondivisibile!

[Tink · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way strange translation.

[Daniele · Rating 1 out of 5]

***a mero scopo compilativo/speculativo***

[Michele Capotosto · Rating 5 out of 5]

L’uomo più basato degli ultimi 2000 anni ha droppato il miglior mixtape della sua vita

[Giacomo Contratto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Satira divertentissima e dissacrante di Giovenale, che in meno di 50 pagine si fa mattatore di un’intera società. Pazzesco.

[Devero · Rating 2 out of 5]

Certo che Giovenale era terribile. Che cosa poi gli avranno mai combinato queste donne, lo sa solo lui.

[Darío Luque Martínez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Creo que no lo he entendido, o no he sabido encontrarle la belleza.

[Martina]

what at time to be an incel