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Commonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satires, Professor Rudd combines textual accuracy with colorful poetry, vividly conveying Juvenal's gift for evoking a wealth of imagery with a few economical phrases. ... Read more

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Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In "The Sixteen Satires", he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Constantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal's powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society. ... Read more

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Beware the wasp - and the mullet!
Yes, Dr Jones may well be right in suggesting that there are better editions than this (although it would have been useful if he'd told us exactly which ones and why!). However, Peter Green arguably offers the best introduction to Juvenal's Satires. After all, Green is not writing for the specialist but for the average, intelligent reader - the kind of reader that Penguin Classics habitually caters for. Jones probably has scholars like Susanna Braund in mind and I'd imagine that her editions are those that professional classicists like him find most valuable. She offers an extremely perceptive commentary, full Latin text and a translation that is, I suspect, closer to the letter than Green's. But Braund comes at a hefty price - £18 for Volume I alone.

In any case, this Penguin edition has lots to offer besides value. Green captures the spirit and vitality, as well as the sharply ironic humour, of the original at least as well as Braund or Rudd, the two main competitors. His Juvenal sounds fresh, witty and modern (as well as occasionally loathsome, misogynistic and xenophobic). His Introduction, moreover, is extensive and engaging. It may well be 'old-fashioned' in its lack of enthusiasm for the 'persona theory' (ie the view that the poet is donning a mask and not voicing his own opinions, thereby preventing us from reading the satires as self-revelation). But Green does at least address 'the much-vexed question of Juvenal's satirical persona', and gives us an alternative approach. He inclines to the view that Juvenal's savage indignation resulted from humbling personal experience. According to long-held tradition, he was exiled - probably to Egypt. Green surmises that this story of exile is true, and that it might well have taken the harshest form - 'deportatio' - involving the confiscation of everything dear to a Roman citizen: land, money, status. In the early satires, Green sees Juvenal as 'a waspish gadfly from Aquinum' and a 'snarling chip-on-the-shoulder flay-all'. The gradual softening of tone (anger - cynicism - irony) can be accounted for, Green thinks, by a gradual improvement in Juvenal's material circumstances. In this reading, therefore, the Satires are at least partly autobiographical.

So, maybe not definitive and certainly not radical, but an edition that's good enough for the vast majority of interested readers. Good enough even for Dr Jones himself, otherwise he wouldn't have used Green's translation in his (excellent) article 'The persona and the addressee in Juvenal's Satire 11' in Ramus, vol.19, no2, pp160-68, 1990, when Braund's and Rudd's alternatives were also available.

Oh, that mullet. You'll have to read Green's illuminating note to line 317 of Satire X.

A Joy to Read!
Peter Green's latest revision to his earlier translations of Juvenal's satires is an absolute joy to read!In the Introduction he recounts the changes he has made with a refreshing candor.In addition, he neatly summarizes the various viewpoints about the problematic portions of the Satires -- possible lacunae (gaps), possible line shuffling, possible transcription errors, etc.While such problems occur with any ancient text (such as the Bible), it is rarely that a translator will discuss the problems, the solutions the translator has employed, and the reasons for his or her choices outside of scholarly works.Peter Green's clear and persuasive arguments are a welcome change from the usual practice.

The translations themselves preserve the sense of the original Latin, with little or no modern colloquialisms.As the translator noted in his Introduction, he was aghast to note in the first edition the extent to which he had both varied from the original line structure of Juvenal's works and the extent to which he had employed contemporary language, which now seemed dated.As a result, Peter Green retranslated most of the Satires to correct these errors.The latest edition of this work thus is far truer to the original work.The resulting text provides fascinating insights into Roman life duriung Juvenal's lifetime.

Another wonderful aspect of this edition are the clear and self-contained footnotes.The reader is not left having to scramble to find some obscure text in order to understand the footnote.Peter Green puts all the information necessary into each footnote, and also provides external references as necessary.

This work stands in stark contrast to Walsh's translation and footnoting of Petronius' Satyricon (Oxford Classics series),which I also reviewed.

Peter Green's translation of Juvenal's Satires is well worth purchasing and reading for anyone at all interested in life and issues in life in late first and early second century Rome.

Sixteen Satires of Juvenal
Juvenal had an acid tongue and were he alive today he would be a blogger satirizing the doings of the celebrated and the wealthy. Reading Juvenal is akin to reading the most viciously funny writings of Jonathan Swift. The translation of Juvenal makes it readily accessible to the modern reader.

De ja vu?
Having recently finished Stephen Colbert's I am an American, this book hit me with a strange "de ja vu" feeling (go figure).Never mind that Juvenal wrote his Satires around 80 to 90 AD in/around the city of Rome.Like Colbert, Juvenal concocts a bombastic, "holier than thou" alter ego narrator who rails on every vice afflicting his contemporary culture, from avarice to homosexuality to the female sex.Although Juvenal the narrator voices his strong opinions in an over-exaggerated way (some times to the point of the reader's irritation) he provides an eye-opening window into Roman society.Effeminate men in see-through robes, women dressing up like soldiers and training in swordplay, noblemen serving themselves lobster and peacock and making their lower-ranking guests eat stale bread--all this disgusts Juvenal.Sometimes his tirades go on a bit long on subjects of less interest to modern readers (out-of-context discussions of now-forgotten politics), and some are flinchingly harsh (Satire 6 "against women"--I suspect the man was never married).For the most part, Juvenal provides an eye-opening and accessible look at how ancient life parallels the modern.

Sweet, sweet ancient action
This book was totally sweet. The Roman satirist Juvenal's biting critiques of Roman civilization are as informative as they are fascinating(and I must say biting critiques make my little bitter person inside happy). His writing style and the English rendering of it flow rather nicely.Perhaps most importantly is Juvenal is able to paint a portrait of a civilization, warts and all, that has been gone for 2000 years. It's kind of like he took a snapshot of his own day that has endured until our time. Now that's what I call sweet history action!!! In fact this book is such sweet history action that when I took a Roman history class and my professor told a student to use just one of Juvenal's satires for an assignment I thought to myself it's cruel and unusual punishment to make a student just read one satire, you just have to read all of them!!! ... Read more

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The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition, a vivid and vigorous translation facing the Latin text.

Persius (34-62 C.E.) and Juvenal (writing maybe 60 years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by Lucilius and Horace, a tradition mined in Susanna Braund's introduction and notes. Her notes also give guidance to the literary and historical allusions that pepper Persius's and Juvenal's satirical poems--which were clearly aimed at a sophisticated urban audience. Both poets adopt the mask of an angry man, and sharp criticism of the society in which they live is combined with flashes of sardonic humor in their satires. Whether targeting common and uncommon vices, the foolishness of prayers, the abuse of power by emperors and the Roman elite, the folly and depravity of Roman wives, or decadence, materialism, and corruption, their tone is generally one of righteous indignation.

Juvenal and Persius are seminal as well as stellar figures in the history of satirical writing. Juvenal especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries.

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Nice Update
This is a new update to a LCL volume that was from 1913.It contains the text of Persius' (A.D. 34-62) and Juvenal's (circa A.D. 127) satires.The update is really well done.The introduction provides an excellent introduction to the genre and a background on the transmission of the text.

The translation is well done.It is a prose translation of the Latin poems.Generally the translation is accurate with "idiom-for-idiom" translation, using equivalent contemporary American expressions for ancient slang.The translation has extensive footnotes to explain historical, mythological, literary, and geographic references.This is very handy for a reader without a mastery of classical literature.

Servicable but in dire need of revision
This Loeb Classical Library edition of Juvenal and Persius was first published in 1918 and was last revised in 1940.The translations are servicable, but this particular volume badly needs the revision that otherLoeb volumes have been receiving under the skilled hand of G.P. Goold,currently general editor of the series.The translations of the Juvenalsatires in the current volume have been censored where Juvenal wasevidently felt by the standards of 1918 to have been too indecent (cf.II.49-50 for an example; the Latin, however, is untouched).While one canunderstand the reticience of the editor given his era, this censorshipshould really be remedied in a future revision (as it has been in the Loeb"Catullus" edited by Goold).Until then Peter Green's finetranslation for Penguin contains a complete rendering which will allow thereader to judge for himself or herself whether or not to be shocked by whatJuvenal says.

Masterful
This translation of Juvenal is masterfully done, with both the original latin and English translation in a small and easy to carry book.Juvenal is to satire what Shakespeare was to the play. ... Read more

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Designed to help students understand the meaning of Juvenal, this book features extensive notes, an introduction offering a biography of Juvenal, and a bibliography.

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Nice but not complete
It is getting hard to get the complete works these days of so many latin writers. This does a nice job but it is not the complete satires of the author. You will need to go to used books or rare books for that -- or better get GOOGLE BOOKS. ... Read more

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For the last ten years I have used this book with great success.Frankly I Still have not found another book on sale here in Argentina to substitute it. Lately it has not been on sale and unfortunately the issue of BOOK 1 in my possesion is wrongly bound.This means that Units 13, 14 and 15 are missing and instead three units of Book 2 are included. The book in my possesion has been published by Regents. I WISH YOU COULD HELP ME SOLVE THIS PROBLEM

For the last teen years
I am a Spanish language teacher at a college in Australia. For the pastteen years this book has been my Bible in organising my classes. And mysever when I have to look for any answer to those questions that arise oncein a while, that I'm not sure of the answer. I had try lots of differentbooks to review, but nothing goes as good explaining the difficult grammaras this books does, using the most simplicity to explains it, you canexpect any simpler.I'm Spanish born person. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume presents a new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. In the Introduction Braund situates Juvenal within the genre of satire and demonstrates his originality in creating an angry character who declaims in the "grand style." The Commentary illuminates the content and style of Satires 1-5. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of these Satires as an organic structure. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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I have attempted in this book to provide something of an introduction to the poetical literature of the post-Augustan age. ... Read more

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The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than describing satire's history as a series of discrete achievements, it relates those achievements to one another in such a way that, in the movement from Lucilius, to Horace, to Persius, to Juvenal, we are made to sense, and see performed, the increasing pressure of imperial oversight in ancient Rome. ... Read more

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' . . . its verve, along with H.'s impressive scholarship, sets this work apart from the drear, scripted prose endemic to culture criticism.H. writes with committed energy rather than dogmatism, with an eye to the words on the page as well as the ideologies subtending them.These are two brilliant, tough and valuable books.'- The Classical Review, XLIX, 1, 1999 ... Read more

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"... gives us all sixteen of the satires in the tough, slashing manner of the original, unheard in Dryden and the few others who tried it." -- Saturday Review

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Timeless and Priceless
I've had this particular edition of Juvenal on my shelf for at least ten years, finally picked it up, and was stunned; take away some of the Roman references, and it's as if Juvenal is writing in the next town today. The 1958 Rolfe Humphries translation is also strikingly modern, even hip. Yes Juvenal is cynical, but it's the kind of attitude that makes one think. His world 1900 years ago is so much like our own; the phrase "bread and circuses", reflecting both civilizations, is one of a number we get from Juvenal. Both the original and the superb translation are biting stuff, not for tepid constitutions. If you are a thinker, however, buy and keep this volume. It's has the value of a stiff drink. ... Read more

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The last decades have seen a lively interest in Roman verse satire, and this collection of essays introduces the reader to the best of modern critical writing on Persius and Juvenal. The eight articles on Persius range from detailed analyses of his fine technique to readings inspired by theoretical approaches such as New Historicism, Reader-Response Criticism, and Dialogics. The nine selections on Juvenal focus upon the pivotal question in modern Juvenalian criticism: how serious is the poet when he voices his appallingly misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic moralism? The contributors challenge the straightforward equivalence of author and speaker in a variety of ways, and they also point up the technical aspects of Juvenal's art. Three papers have been newly translated for this volume, and all Latin quotations are also given in English. A specially written Introduction provides a useful conspectus of recent scholarship. ... Read more

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Two highly influential writers of satirical poetry in the early Roman Empire, Persius and Juvenal are universally admired and enjoyed for the mordant wit and biting irony with which they exposed contemporary life and abuses under the notorious emperors Nero and Domitian. This new and revised edition--the first since the original publication in 1959--conveniently brings together both poets in a single volume, and contains, along with a freshly amended version of the text, a concise apparatus criticus at the foot of each page and a full Preface, giving a comprehensive overview of the state of the text in light of recent scholarship. ... Read more

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Vince e Bono Malum
A great book for collectors, if you are into latin classical books, this is must.An unusual book to have and great for those who like me enjoy building impressive libraries. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Macoy in 1914 in 177 pages; Description: A presentation of theories contained in The principles of light and color, by Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt.; Subjects: Health ... Read more

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