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Juvenal the Satirist
Language: en
Pages: 498
Authors: Gilbert Highet
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1961 - Publisher:

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"The Roman poet Juvenal (c. A.D. 60-130) left sixteen satires, which contain some of the bitterest and most incisive descriptions of life under the corrupt Roma
The Satirist
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Theodore Draper
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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Satire takes as its subject the absurdity of human beings, their societies, and the institutions they create. For centuries, satirists themselves, scholars, cri
Satire and the Threat of Speech
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Catherine M. Schlegel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-29 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using cr
The Satires
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Juvenal
Categories: Verse satire, English
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Rooted in the traditional land-owning class, Juvenal wrote brilliant and inflammatory satires on the decadent and corrupt Roman élite, a fact that resulted in
The Satirist, Or Monthly Meteor
Language: en
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