Juvenal

Wendell Clausen

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

The Sixteen Satires

Wendell Vernon Clausen

The volumes published in the series "Beitr ge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

Decorum, Allusion, and Ideology

Virgil's Aeneid

This volume of sixteen essays includes "The Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiod's Text," by Friedrich Solmsen; "Notes on Plautus' Bacchides," by Otto Skutsch; "Gadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146-148)," by Richard F. Thomas; "Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Poetry," by Lennart Håkanson; "Augustus and August: Some Pitfalls of Historical Fiction," by A. B. Bosworth; and "The Career of Arrian," by Ronald Syme.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

This volume of eighteen articles offers: Andrew R. Dyck, "The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus"; Hayden Pelliccia, "Aeschylus, Eumenides 64-88 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo"; G. Zuntz, "Aeschyli Prometheus"; Georgia Ann Machemer, "Medicine, Music, and Magic: The Healing Grace of Pindar's Fourth Nemean"; Carlo O. Pavese, "On Pindar fr. 169"; Deborah Steiner, "Pindar's 'Oggetti Parlanti'"; Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, "Parody and Later Greek Comedy"; Noel Robertson, "Athens' Festival of the New Wine"; Richard F. Thomas, "Two Problems in Theocritus (Id. 5.49, 22.66)"; Nita Krevans, "Ilia's Dream: Ennius, Virgil, and the Mythology of Seduction"; Benjamin Victor, "Remarks on the Andria of Terence"; Cynthia Damon, "Comm. Pet. 10"; Harold Gotoff, "Oratory: The Art of Illusion"; Henri J. W. Wijsman, "Ascanius, Gargara and Female Power in Georgics 3.269-270"*; Robert V. Albis, "Aeneid 2.57-59: The Ennian Background"; Mario Geymonat, "Callimachus at the End of Aeneas' Narration"; Alessandro Barchiesi, "Future Reflexive: Two Modes of Allusion and Ovid's Heroides"; and Monika Asztalos, "Boethius as a Transmitter of Greek Logic to the Latin West: The Categories." * By misunderstanding this article was published in an uncorrected form in HSCP, vol. 94 (1992). Any reference should be made to the article as published here.

Wendell Clausen

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