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Juvenal: Satires Book V (Hardcover)
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Juvenal: Satires Book V (Hardcover)
Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
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Juvenal's fifth and final book of Satires consists of three
complete poems and one fragment and continues and completes his
satirical assessment of the Rome of the early second century AD.
The poems treat us to a scandalised exposure of folly and vice and
also the voice of sweet reason as the poet advises us how to live
our lives-all delivered in the hugely entertaining tones of a great
master of the Latin language. There is here laugh-out-loud humour,
razor-sharp descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells of
ancient Rome and also some of the most moving lines of this
extraordinary poet. All four poems promote the value of human life
and the need to accept our lives without worshipping the false gods
of money, power or superstition. Satires 13 and 14 both deal with
our need to use money without being enslaved by it, Satire 15 is an
astonishing tour de force description of the cannibalism
perpetrated in a vicious war in Egypt, while the final unfinished
poem in the collection looks from a worm's-eye view at the
advantages enjoyed by men enlisted in the Praetorian guard. The
Introduction sets Juvenal in the history of Roman Satire, explores
the style of the poems and also asks how far they can be read as in
any sense serious, given the ironic pose adopted by the satirist.
The text is accompanied by a literal English translation and the
commentary (which is keyed to important words in the translation
and aims to be accessible to readers with little or no Latin) seeks
to explain both the factual background to the poems and also the
literary qualities which make this poetry exciting and moving to a
modern audience.
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