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Figuring Out Roman Nobility: Juvenal's Eighth 'Satire'
Contributor(s): Henderson, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0859895173     ISBN-13: 9780859895170
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 1997
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Annotation: Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA. This new book by John Henderson shows how the eighth Satire, a brilliant piece of writing, makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in the process displays the core of ideas and practices with which aristocratic culture at Rome enshrined itself - the display of geneologies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the cult of exemplary legends - in all seriousness. Virgil and Horace are Juvenal's prize scalps in his spoof of the Roman fame-machine. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of Roman Satire and advanced school students of Classical Civilisation, but the notes and Appendices also address scholars and advanced readers of Latin poetry and Roman cultural politics, supporting a new close-reading and engaging with literary theory. All Latin is translated.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical
Dewey: 871.01
LCCN: 00456220
Series: University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in History
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.86" W x 8.26" L (0.51 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index
 
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Juvenal is a central author on courses in Classical Studies and has an important place on courses in comparative literature, both in the UK and USA. This new book by John Henderson shows how the eighth Satire, a brilliant piece of writing, makes fun of traditional Roman family values, and in
the process displays the core of ideas and practices with which aristocratic culture at Rome enshrined itself - the display of geneologies, ancestral busts, proliferating names, the cult of exemplary legends - in all seriousness. Virgil and Horace are Juvenal's prize scalps in his spoof of the Roman
fame-machine. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of Roman Satire, and advanced school students of Classical Civilisation; but the notes and Appendices also address scholars and advanced readers of Latin poetry and Roman cultural politics, supporting a new close-reading and engaging with
literary theory. All Latin is translated.
 
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