A Companion to Persius and Juvenal (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

by Josiah Osgood (Editor), Susanna Braund (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $184.33

  Satire, written in the verse of heroic epic but focused on the evils of contemporary society, was ancient Rome's original contribution to world literature. Two great practitioners of this art, Persius and Juvenal, wrote under the early emperors. Inspired by their Republican predecessors, both radically reinvented the genre.