Juvenal: Satire 6: Volume 0, Part 0. - Juvenal and WATSON, L. and WATSON, P.,
Satire 6
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KORTE INHOUD
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 ...
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2014 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 330 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0521671108 ISBN-13: 9780521671101Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge University Press, 2014, XIII,320p. Paperback. Nice copy. Like new. 'The poem gets appropriate and up-to-date treatment as a satiric performance shaped by social traditions and trends. The Introduction, a valuable resource, organizes discussion s...