Figuring Out Roman Nobility: Juvenal's Eighth 'Satire'

by John Henderson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859895173
• ISBN13: 9780859895170
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.3"