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Juvenal Satires IV (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
John Godwin
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Description for Juvenal Satires IV (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
Paperback. Examines the human desire to be rich, famous, attractive and powerful and dismisses all these goals as not worth striving for - we are in fact happier as we are. This book 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. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 206 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms. The poet adopts a more resigned and philosophical tone, unlike the brash anger of the earlier books. These poems use enormous humour and wit to puncture the pretensions of the foolish and the wicked, urging an acceptance of our lives and a more positive stance towards life and death by mockery of the pompous and comic description of the rich and famous. In Satire 10 Juvenal examines the human desire to be rich, famous, attractive and powerful and dismisses all ... Read more
Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms. The poet adopts a more resigned and philosophical tone, unlike the brash anger of the earlier books. These poems use enormous humour and wit to puncture the pretensions of the foolish and the wicked, urging an acceptance of our lives and a more positive stance towards life and death by mockery of the pompous and comic description of the rich and famous. In Satire 10 Juvenal examines the human desire to be rich, famous, attractive and powerful and dismisses all ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910572337
SKU
V9781910572337
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About John Godwin
John Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His publications include 'Horace: Selected Odes' (Bloomsbury, 2018), 'Ovid: Metamorphoses III: An Extract' (Bloomsbury 2013), 'Lucretius' (Bloomsbury 2004), 'Reading Catullus' (Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008) and editions of Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Books IV and VI and the complete works of Catullus for the Aris & Phillips Classical ... Read more
Reviews for Juvenal Satires IV (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
Reviews 'Godwin offers a nice general introduction to Juvenal, a translation, and a comment that does not hesitate to deepen linguistic, contentual and even textual problems.' Biagio Santorelli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review